ID 1163456
Lot 44 | VILHELM HAMMERSHØI (1864-1916)
Estimate value
£ 500 000 – 800 000
Landskab. Sommer. "Ryet".
oil on canvas
17 7⁄8 x 22 in. (45.5 x 56 cm.)
Painted in 1896
Provenance
Aage Mantzius, Copenhagen.
Emil August Bloch, Copenhagen; sale, Udstillingslokalerne ved Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 17-18 February 1920, lot 35.
Martha Schibler, Copenhagen; sale, Arne Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 29 November 1962, lot 12.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
Literature
K. Madsen, 'Vilhelm Hammershøi' in Kunst, Copenhagen, 1899, p. 12.
S. Michaëlis & A. Bramsen, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Kunstneren og hand Vaerk, Copenhagen, 1918, p. 94, no. 165 (titled 'Landskab. Sommer. “Ryet”').
S. Meyer-Abich, Vilhelm Hammershøi: Das malerische Werk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, 1996, no. 140.
Exhibited
Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Arbejder af Vilhelm Hammershøi, April 1916, 1. afd. no. 126, p. 13.
Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Vilhelm Hammershøi, October - November 1981, no. 61, p. 173 (illustrated p. 87).
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Vilhelm Hammershøi: Painter of Stillness and Light, January 1983, no. 37, p. 98 (illustrated p. 55); this exhibition later travelled to Washington, The Phillips Collection, February - March 1983.
Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish Painter of Solitude and Light, August - October 1997, no. 14, p. 153 (illustrated p. 74); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée d’Orsay, November - March 1998; and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June - September 1998.
Gothenburg, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Vilhelm Hammershøi, October 1999 - January 2000, no. 21, p. 84 (illustrated p. 85); this exhibition later travelled to Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, February - May 2000.
Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Hammershøi > Dreyer, The Magic of Images, September 2006 - January 2007, no. 30, p. 144 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, January - May 2007.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence, June - September 2008, no. 33, p. 82 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, September - December 2008.
| Artist: | Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864 - 1916) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Denmark, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864 - 1916) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Denmark, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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