Sotheby’s Scandinavian Art Sale June 3
Published April 19th, 2009
Sotheby’s has announced that its annual sale of Scandinavian Art in London on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 will be led by five important works by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916). The group of three intimate portrait works and two landscapes includes three paintings that featured in the well-received and critically acclaimed exhibition Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence, which was staged at the Royal Academy in London during the summer of 2008 and then travelled to the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo that autumn. All five works show many of the artist’s signature elements.
