#vilhelm hammershøi
“Le battement liquide du balancier de l’horloge monte comme une fièvre. Sous la régularité des lignes et des rythmes, le vide croît vers le vertige, comme si le pas à pas, le geste à geste conduisait vers un gouffre. Toutes les saisons sont d’hiver. On aimerait savoir le nom d’une vraie tristesse, un deuil, ou un départ. Mais on redoute davantage une mort à l’envers, une mort de l’instant goutte à goutte perdu sur le parquet glacé”
Philippe Delerm, inspiré par Vilhelm Hammershøi, « Intérieur avec jeune femme vue de dos » (c 1903) (tableau ci-dessus)
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Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) - Stue (Interior with an oval mirror)
Oil on canvas. Painted in 1900.
21.6 x 18.1 inches, 55 x 46 cm. Estimate: US$1,500,000-2,500,000.
Sold Christie’s, New York, 12 May 2022 for US$6,300,000 incl B.P.
Part of the Anne H. Bass Collection.
Anne Hendricks Bass (1941-2020) was a philanthropist and arts patron and former wife of the Texas oil billionaire Sid Bass. The twelve works in this sale include three Monets, two Rothkos, and a pastel, an oil and a sculpture by Degas. All adorned her 5th Avenue New York apartment. They have a combined estimate of between US$243-361 million. All lots sold for a buyer’s premium-inclusive total of US$363,087,500.
The 136-page catalogue (144.4 MB) is available as a free pdf. Lots of informative text, supporting photos of other works of art, and the collection in situ in her residence. Simply pop the following into a new window:
dubdubdubdot christies.com/PDF/catalog/2022/NYR21517_SaleCat.pdf
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Just called to say…
MY OUP COVERS ARE A DELIGHT.
That is all.
[Image: my edit of an OUP-style book cover for Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day (1919), featuring VilhelmHammershøi’s painting of the British Museum from 1906.]
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Paintings by Vilhelm Hammershøi; 1864-1916.
A casa
“Enfim, era a casa. A casa com seus retratos, seus ruídos, seus silêncios e seus mistérios. O soalho de madeira que de noite rangia, os móveis muito antigos, de onde por vezes vinha um pequeno estalido. Quase como um gemido.”
Manuel Alegre, “Alma”; pintura de Vilhelm Hammershøi.
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Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864-1916), Interior, Strandgade 30, 1902. Oil on canvas, 41 x 33 cm.
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Interior in Louis Seize style. From the artist’s home. Rahbeks Allé, by Vilhelm Hammershoi, 1897
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Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916)
“Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back” (c. 1903-1904)
Oil on canvas
Located in the Randers Kunstmuseum, Jutland, Denmark
Is January over yet?
