European and British Art, Part II
European and British Art, Part II
Property from an Historic British Collection
Peter Ilsted
The Artist's Sister, Ida Ilsted
Lot Closed
July 13, 02:15 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Historic British Collection
Peter Ilsted
Danish
1861 - 1933
The Artist's Sister, Ida Ilsted
oil on canvas
Unframed: 31 by 24.3cm., 12¼ by 9½in.
Framed: 38.5 by 30.5cm., 15¼ by 12in.
Bury Street Gallery, London
Purchased from the above by the present owner in 1988
Ida Hammershøi née Ilsted married her brother's close friend and fellow painter Vilhelm Hammershøi. She became her husband's most frequent model (lot 116).