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Vilhelm Hammershøi
b. Copenhagen 1864, d. s. p. 1916
"Landskab. Sommer. Fra Ryet ved Farumsø." Summer
landscape. From Ryet near Lake Farum. The branches
and leaves of the trees on the hillside stand out
against the sky. In the foreground beeches. 1895.
Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 51 x 65 cm.
Sophus Michaëlis and Alfred Bramsen, A Catalogue Raisonné
of the Works of Vilhelm Hammershøi no. 141.
Exhibited: Den Frie 1896 no. 34. "Kunst- og Industriudstillingen
i Paris 1900" (a letter to the owner of the painting,
Instrument Maker Hjorth, from Danish painter P. S. Krøyer,
Chairman of the committee for the Danish participation in
the Paris exhibition, is enclosed).
Guildhall, London, "Exhibition of Works by Danish Painters",
1907 no. 112.
On the reverse of the painting there is an exhibition label
from "Det Danske Kunststævne i "Forum", Copenhagen,
1929, but the painting is not registered in the exhibition catalogue.
Since the turn of the year 2006/07 and until now
the painting has been exhibited at the Statens Museum for
Kunst (The Danish National Gallery).
Provenance: Instrument Maker Emil Hjort, in his family
since 1895 and until now. There is a difference of opinion
regarding how Mr. Hjort acquired the painting, if the painting
was specifically painted for him or if he bought it at art
dealer Kleis's shortly after it was painted.
Mr. Hjort owned 4 paintings by Hammershøi. At the abovementioned
exhibition in Paris 11 works by Hammershøi were
presented, three of these were Mr. Hjort's: The present
landscape, the painting "Tre unge kvinder" (Three young
ladies) from 1895, now at Ribe Kunstmuseum, and a
dining room interior.
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