Vilhelm Hammershøi
Composition de formes géométriques (Composition of Geometric Forms)

CultureDanish
Titles
  • Composition de formes géométriques (Composition of Geometric Forms)
Date1879
MediumGraphite and charcoal, heightened with white chalk on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 12 3/16 × 13 11/16 in. (31 × 34.8 cm)
Frame: 21 7/16 × 25 3/16 × 2 3/4 in. (54.5 × 64 × 7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors
Object number2021.381
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist, 1879; Karen Bramsen (1877-1970), wife of Gustav Falck; probably purchased from Bramsen by Harald Olsen (former curator, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen) (1874-1955); Harald Olsen collection; by descent; [Copenhagen, Denmark, Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, Paintings & Drawings, 1 December 2020, lot 42]; [Paris, Galerie Michel Descours, after 1 December 2020-2021]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in graphite on top left, in the hand of the artist’s mother: Tegnet hos H. Grønvold [dessiné à H. Grønvold] (Drawn to H Grønvold)

Fig. 5 Hammershøi, The Artist’s Mother, Frederikke Hammershoi, 1884, graphite and charcoal on paper, Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen

Recto: Stamp and inscribed in graphite on top right: FREMLAGT / I SKOLERAADET / 1/10 79 [Présenté à la commission scolaire 1/10 79] (Presented at the school board 1/10 79)

None noted
Catalogue raisonnéN/A

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