![Vilhelm Hammershøi - Interior [1890]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7514/15489469280_24323bdd24_o.jpg)
Interior, with its bright light and breezy atmosphere, exudes a certain playfulness and joie de vivre, reflective of Hammershøi's personal happiness and professional success at the time. By 1890, his career was on the rise: he had just returned from Paris, where he was represented by four works in the Danish section of the 1889 Exposition Universelle, and on a visit to Copenhagen in July, the French critic and collector Théodore Duret expressed his admiration for Hammershøi's paintings, preferring them to those of any other contemporary Danish painter. And on a personal level Hammershøi was in high spirits following his engagement in June to Ida Ilsted, whom he married the following year.
[Sold for £169,250 at Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 49 x 41 cm]