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Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30
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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