Vilhelm Hammershøi — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works90

Museum Acquisitions

Met

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Art Institute of Chicago

Cleveland Museum of Art

Sainsbury Wing

Seattle Art Museum

Detroit Institute of Arts

Cincinnati Art Museum

Getty Museum

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

National Museum of Western Art

Alte Nationalgalerie

Ateneum

Statens Museum for Kunst

Previous Sales 23

Sotheby's

The Balcony, Spurveskjul, 1911

Unknown

Mar 2026

Sotheby's

Interior, setting the table, 1895

Unknown

Jul 2025

Christie's

Selv-portræt (Self-portrait), 1895

Bought In

Jul 2025

Sotheby's

Sunshine in the Drawing Room II, 1903

Unknown

Jun 2025

Christie's

Landskab. Sommer. Fra Ryet ved Farumsø, 1895

£1,250,000 ($1.6M USD)

Oct 2024

Sotheby's

Landscape, view from Lejre , 1905

Withdrawn

Jun 2024

Christie's

Landskab. Sommer. "Ryet"., 1896

£2,339,000 ($3.1M USD)

Mar 2024

Christie's

Stue. Solskin-Studie, 1911

Bought In

Oct 2023

Sotheby's

Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30, 1907

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Trees Near Gundsømagle, Roskilde

Unknown

Jul 2022

Sotheby's

The White Door and the Golden Cupboard

Unknown

Jul 2022

Christie's

Stue (Interior with an Oval Mirror), 1900

$6,300,000

May 2022

Christie's

Interior with a table, bookcase and Windsor Chair, 25 Strandgade, 1913

£2,322,000 ($3.1M USD)

Mar 2022

Sotheby's

Greenland Trade Wharf, Christianshavn, Copenhagen

Bought In

Jul 2021

Sotheby's

VILHELM HAMMERSHØI | DUNKEBAKKE. FREDERIKSVÆRK

Unknown

Jan 2020

Christie's

Den Hvide Dør (The White Door), 1888

€915,000 ($1.0M USD)

Oct 2019

Christie's

Interior with a Woman (Stue med en kvinde)

$1,215,000

May 2019

Christie's

Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25, 1912

€5,037,500 ($5.5M USD)

Oct 2018

Christie's

Bedroom, Strandgade 30, 1906

£698,500 ($922k USD)

Nov 2013

Christie's

Ida in an Interior, 1897

£892,450 ($1.2M USD)

Nov 2012

Christie's

Laesende dame i sofa (Reclining lady on a sofa), 1892

£84,500 ($112k USD)

May 2008

Christie's

Det gamle klaver. Strandgade 30 (The Old Piano. Strandgade 30), 1907

£557,600 ($736k USD)

Jun 2007

Upcoming Auctions 2

Bonhams

Woodland scene with old and young trees. C. 1882. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 28 × 36 cm. Woodland scene with old and young trees. C. 1882. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 28 × 36 cm.

Est. DKK 300,000–DKK 400,000

Jun 16, 2026

Bonhams

A Lady in a blue dress. Study. C. 1892. Unsigned. On the reverse, inscribed by the artist's wife. Oil on canvas. 41 x 29 cm. "En dame i blå kjole. Studie". A Lady in a blue dress. Study. C. 1892. Unsigned. On the reverse, inscribed by the artist's wife, Ida Hammershøi: "malet af Vilhelm Hammershøi attesteres Ida Hammershøi" (painted by Vilhelm Hammershøi, certified Ida Hammershøi). Oil on canvas. 41 x 29 cm.

Est. DKK 250,000–DKK 300,000

Jun 16, 2026

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Publications3

Exhibition Catalog 2

Vilhelm Hammershøi. Maler des stillen Klangs

Hatje Cantz · 2026

Vilhelm Hammershøi

Hatje Cantz · 2008

Survey 1

Art of the Nordic Nations: Modernism, Freedom and Identity, 1870–1950

Thames & Hudson · 2025

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Current Exhibitions0

No current exhibitions found.

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Past Exhibitions5

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Bruce Museum

The Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth-Century Denmark

Michael Ancher, Karl Madsen, Vilhelm Hammershøi, L.A. Ring

1 Museum Dr, Greenwich, CT 06830, USA

Jan 1, 2024

The Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth-Century Denmark Nov. 16, 2024 – Nov. 30, 2025

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#2,972 Atlantean Art Gallery

Painting Tranquility: Masterworks by Vilhelm Hammershøi

Vilhelm Hammershøi

317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada

Apr 16, 2016 — Jun 26, 2016

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Art Gallery of Ontario

Painting Tranquility: Masterworks by Vilhelm Hammershøi

Vilhelm Hammershøi

317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada

Jan 1, 2016

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Ateneum

Collections Exhibition Stories of Finnish Art

Le Corbusier, Eero Järnefelt, Edvard Munch, Hugo Simberg, Albert Edelfelt, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Gösta Diehl, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Werner Holmberg, Greta Hällfors-Sipilä, Väinö Kamppuri

Kaivokatu 2, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

Collections Exhibition Stories of Finnish Art

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