Vilhelm Hammershøi

The White Door and the Golden Cupboard

Auction Closed

July 13, 12:35 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Historic British Collection

Vilhelm Hammershøi

Danish

1864 - 1916

The White Door and the Golden Cupboard

oil on canvas

Unframed: 39 by 36.5cm., 15¼ by 14¼in.

Framed: 50 by 47.5cm., 19¾ by 18¾in.

Estate of the artist (sale: Copenhagen, 1916, lot 5)

Viggo Madsen

Private collection, Denmark

Sale: Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 19 August 1987, lot 250

Bury Street Gallery, London (purchased at the above sale)

Purchased from the above by the present owner in circa 1988

Alfred Bramsen & Sophus Michaëlis, Vilhelm Hammershøi. Kunstneren og hans værk, Copenhagen & Christiania, 1918, p. 83, no. 39