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Property from a Danish Private Collection

Vilhelm Hammershøi

The Balcony, Spurveskjul

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Vilhelm Hammershøi

1864 - 1916


The Balcony. Spurveskjul

signed with the initials V.H. (lower right)

oil on canvas

56 by 77 cm. 22 by 30¼ in.

Executed in 1911.

Professor Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862–1927), Copenhagen 

Thence by descent in 2010 to the present owner

Alfred Bramsen and Sophus Michaëlis, Vilhelm Hammershøi. Kunsteren og hans Værk, Copenhagen 1918, pp. 70 and 110, no. 348

Poul Vad, Hammershøi. Voerk og liv, Copenhagen 1988, pp. 307 and 457, illustrated

Anette Rosenvold Hvidt and Gertrud Oelsner, Vilhelm Hammershøi, på sporet af det åbne billede, Copenhagen 2021, pp. 426, 430–431 and 566, illustrated p. 431