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Paul Fischer
b. Copenhagen 1860, d. s. p. 1934
The artist's first wife Dagny standing in a garden door.
Signed Paul Fischer. Oil on canvas. 74 x 58 cm.
DKK 225.000 / € 30.000
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Vilhelm Hammershøi
b. Copenhagen 1864, d. s. p. 1916
A nude woman laying on a bed. Signed V. H.
Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard. 35 x 45 cm.
In the few cases Hammershøi depicted nudes they were preferably
seated or standing – never reclined. The painting carries no
date but is presumably painted very early in Hammershøi’s
oeuvre, perhaps even as a nude study, perhaps on his first journey
to Paris in 1889 judging by the influence of the French style.
The painting thus seems to indicate an early stage of Hammershøi’s
production while at the same time pointing to a later
epoch in art history, in that the somewhat contorted, bony female
nude could boldly be interpreted as resembling those rendered
a century later by the German-born British painter Lucian
Freud (b. 1922). However, the averted face, the somewhat freehanded
brushwork on the grey back wall, and not least the
small painting hanging high on the wall above the bed are very
typical Hammershøi features. Only few other painters would
think of placing a small picture in the room at this exact spot on
the wall and few other painters would include such an image in
a painting where, indeed, the focus is on the model rather than
the interior. DKK 250.000-300.000 / € 34.000-40.000
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