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#545 - from 18 March 2019 to 24 March 2019


Vilhelm Hammershoi, Interior with a woman standing, not dated, oil on canvas, 67.5 x 54.3 cm, Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. Danish Art Collection © TX0006154704, registered March 22, 2005.

Hammershoi, the master of silence

PARIS – As the title of the exhibition says, he was a master of Danish painting. As much as Balke or Eckersberg. But in a more definite manner, he was a master of silence. His work, modern and radical, but now largely forgotten, had left a strong impression during the retrospective in 1997 at the musée d’Orsay. It showed stripped interiors with a few pieces of furniture that reappear from one composition to the next (his own apartment actually), few characters (generally his own wife, seen from the back). This new presentation of Hammershoi (1864-1916) also enhances lesser-known aspects of his painting, such as landscapes, both urban and rural – and a few severe nudes.
Hammershoi, le maître de la peinture danoise, at the musée Jacquemart-André, from 14 March to 22 July 2019.

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