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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30
    Vilhelm Hammershøi. Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30, 1907. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001769

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    Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30

    by Vilhelm Hammershøi

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower right: VH

    Provenance

    Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, October 1910, lot 17. Ole Olsen (1863–1943), Copenhagen, by 1916 [Copenhagen 1916]; with his daughter, Lady Elvira Abrahamsen (born Olsen; 1896–1981), Copenhagen, by 1941 [Copenhagen 1941]; sold, Olsen sale, Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, Feb. 28, 1944, lot 717, to a private collection, Copenhagen; by descent through the family; sold, Sotheby's, New York, May 16, 2023 to the Art Institute of Chicago.

    Exhibition history

    Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Arbejder af Vilhelm Hammershøi, Apr. - May, 1916, cat. 75. Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Mit bedste Kunstværk, Oct. 1941, cat. 74. Oslo, Kunstforening, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1955, cat. 37 Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Apr. 23-May 15, 1955, cat. 42 Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Hammershøi, Oct. 16-Nov. 29, 1981, cat. 119. Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Vilhelm Hammershøi: Danish Painter of Solitude and Light, Aug. 15-Oct. 19, 1997, cat. 50; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Nov. 18, 1997-Mar. 2, 1998; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 19-Sep. 7, 1998. Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, At Home with Hammershøi, Mar. 4-June 19, 2016, cat. 73. Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Hammershøi: El ojo que escucha, Feb. 17–May 31, 2026, cat. 52; Kunsthaus Zürich, July 3–Oct. 25, 2026 [Madrid only].

    Publications

    Winkel & Magnussens, Copenhagen, Fortegnelse over en Fortrinlig Samling Malierier og Studier af Fremragende Danske Kunstnere, Oct. 1910, lot 17. Sophus Michaëlis and Alfred Bramsen, Vilhelm Hammershøi. Kunstneren og hans værk (Copenhagen and Kristiania: Gyldendal, 1918), 107 no. 308. Winkel & Magnussens, Copenhagen, Generaldirektør Ole Olsen's efterladte Samlinger, Feb. 28, 1944 - Mar. 4, 1944, lot 717 (ill.). Poul Vad, Vilhelm Hammershøi, (Copenhagen: Glyndendal, 1957), 21-22, pl. 37. Poul Vad, Hammershøi: Værk og liv (Copenhagen: Glyndendal, 1988), 382 (ill.) Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (authors Pauline Lehmann Banke, Gianluca Pastorelli, Annette S. Ortiz Miranda, Loa Ludvigsen, Troels Filtenborg, Anne Haack Christensen), The Vilhelm Hammershøi Digital Archive Project, ongoing, The Music Room analyzed in SMK’s laboratories and included in the archive 2022, no. EKS1175. James Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 73 (ill.). Clara Marcellán, Hammershøi: El ojo que escucha, exh. cat. (Madrid: Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2026), 29, 40 (ill.), 41–42, 44, 134–35 (ill.), 197, 204–7, cat. 52. James Rondeau, ed., Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2026), 151, 262, no. 110, (illl.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864–1916)
    Date
    1907
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    70 × 59 cm (27 9/16 × 23 1/4 in.); Framed: 85.5 × 75.3 × 8.9 cm (33 5/8 × 29 5/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    20th Century
    Place
    Denmark
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Joseph Winterbotham Collection
    Accession no.
    2023.1322

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