page_title: Vilhelm Hammershøi
section_title: Highest auction price for Danish work
hierarchical_section_title: Vilhelm Hammershøi / Highest auction price for Danish work
context_page_description: Vilhelm Hammershøi, often written in English Vilhelm Hammershoi, was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, subdued portraits and interiors.
context_section_description: In June 2012, Hammershøi's Ida læser et brev (Ida Reading a Letter) was auctioned by Sotheby's in London for £1,721,250 or DKK 15,747,499, a record for any Danish work of art. Two other paintings by Hammershøi were also sold the same day at Sotheby's for unusually high prices: Interiør med to lys (Interior with Two Candles) was auctioned for DKK 10,110,000 and Ida i interiør (Ida in Interior) for DKK 6,120,000.
  In December 2018, following Christie's New York European Art auction, The Getty Museum acquired the painting Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25 (1912) for $5,037,500.
caption: Vilhelm Hammershøi: Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25
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