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Sotheby’s to sell one of the most important works by Vilhelm Hammershoi to come to auction

LONDON.- Sotheby’s Scandinavian sale on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 will be headlined by Interior with Ida in a White Chair by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916). Estimated at £500,000-700,000, the painting is one of the most important works by the artist ever to be offered at auction and comes to the market from a Private Danish Collection. Painted in 1900 in the artist’s home at Strandgade 30 in Copenhagen, it depicts his wife Ida. A sublime distillation of Hammershøi’s artistic concerns during his lifetime, the painting epitomises his remarkable ability to capture a sense of timelessness and introspective solitude. Interior with Ida in a White Chair can be considered the most poetic of the series of paintings made from this viewpoint in the apartment. The