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A painting by Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi has set a new record

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for the most expensive Danish painting ever sold. The painting, titled “Interior. The music room, Strandgade 30” was auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York and fetched a whopping 62.8 million DKK. The buyer of the artwork is an American museum.

  • The previous record was held by another Hammershøi painting, “Interior with woman with piano, Strandgade 30” which sold for 39.5 million DKK in 2017.
  • The painting sold at the auction had been hanging in the actual apartment depicted in the artwork since the mid-1900s and had not been offered for auction since 1944.
Narcis George Matache
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Executive Editor and Founder of "Last Week in Denmark".

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