Oil paint on canvas
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Interior Sunlight on Floor
Purchased 1930
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
Copenhagen, Strandgaade 30
countries and continents
Denmark
domestic
door
features
furnishings
interior - non-specific
interiors
natural phenomena
objects
places
shadow
sunshine
table
table cloth
weather
window
painting oil paint canvas
1 May 2000 – 19 September 2001
2001-09-19
1 May 2001 – 19 September 2001
2001-09-19
2001-05-01
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2000-05-01
Intimate Lives
Collection based display
21 March 2003 – 29 July 2003
2003-07-29
21 March 2003 – 29 July 2003
2003-07-29
2003-03-21
Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany)
http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
2003-03-21
Vilhelm Hammershoi
Loan-out
1 February 2012 – 16 September 2012
2012-09-16
1 February 2012 – 1 June 2012
2012-06-01
2012-02-01
Statens Museum for Kunst (Copenhagen, Denmark)
14 June 2012 – 16 September 2012
2012-09-16
2012-06-14
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung (Munich, Germany)
2012-02-01
Vilhelm Hammershoi and Europe
Loan-out
5 July 2014 – 5 July 2015
2015-07-05
5 July 2014 – 5 July 2015
2015-07-05
2014-07-05
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2014-07-05
Liverpool Biennial
Collection based display
6 February 2015 – 18 May 2015
2015-05-18
6 February 2015 – 18 May 2015
2015-05-18
2015-02-06
Amos Andersonin Taidemuseo (Helsinki, Finland)
2015-02-06
Vilhelm Hammershøi
Loan-out
20 October 2016 – 29 January 2017
2017-01-29
20 October 2016 – 29 January 2017
2017-01-29
2016-10-20
Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, Germany)
2016-10-20
The Uncanny Home - Interiors from Edvard Munch to Max Beckmann
Loan-out
14 March 2019 – 22 July 2019
2019-07-22
14 March 2019 – 22 July 2019
2019-07-22
2019-03-14
Musée Jacquemart-André (Paris, France)
2019-03-14
Hammershøi and his world
Loan-out
12 October 2019 – 30 August 2020
2020-08-30
5 October 2019 – 23 February 2020
2020-02-23
2019-10-05
Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
8 March 2020 – 30 August 2020
2020-08-30
2020-03-08
Guildhall Art Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.guildhall-art-gallery.org.uk
2019-10-12
The Enchanted Interior
Loan-out
8 June 2021 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
8 July 2021 – 14 November 2021
2021-11-14
2021-07-08
Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China)
20 December 2021 – 8 May 2022
2022-05-08
2021-12-20
Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea)
15 June 2022 – 13 November 2022
2022-11-13
2022-06-15
ACMI (Melbourne, Australia)
25 February 2023 – 25 June 2023
2023-06-25
2023-02-25
Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand)
12 July 2023 – 2 October 2023
2023-10-02
2023-07-12
National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan)
26 October 2023 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
2023-10-26
Nakanoshima Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan)
2021-06-08
Light
Tate partnerships & programmes
17 February 2026 – 31 May 2026
2026-05-31
17 February 2026 – 31 May 2026
2026-05-31
2026-02-17
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain)
2026-02-17
Vilhelm Hammershøi. The Eye that Listens
Loan-out
Interior, Sunlight on the Floor
support: 518 × 440 × 23 mm
frame: 628 × 546 × 78 mm
Purchased 1930
<p><b>Vilhelm Hammershøi</b> 1864-1916</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hammershoi-interior-sunlight-on-the-floor-n04509" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04509</span></a> <b>Interior, Sunlight on the Floor</b> 1906</p>
<p>Inscribed 'VH' b.r. 
<br/>Oil on canvas (exposed surface only), 20 1/4 x 17 3/8 (51.5 x 44). A further 10cm. of the painted surface has been folded back on the left, and 4cm. on the right. Michaëlis and Bramsen give the original dimensions as 19 3/4 x 21 1/4 (50 x 55) 
<br/>Purchased from Mrs Ethel Hales (Clarke Fund) 1930 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: Leonard Borwick, London; Mrs Ethel Hales, Writtle, 1924 
<br/><i>Exh: Opening Exhibition of the Modern Foreign Gallery</i>, Tate Gallery, June-October 1926 (works not numbered), as 'Sunlight on the Floor' 
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Sophus Michaëlis and Alfred Bramsen, <i>Vilhelm Hammershøi</i> (Copenhagen-Christiana 1918), No.284, p.105 as 'Stue' 1906 
<br/><i>Repr: Studio</i>, XLVII, 1909, p.256 as 'The Quiet Room' (this shows the picture in its present state)</p>
<p>Described by Michaëlis and Bramsen as follows: 'To the left is a table with a white tablecloth, which is cut by the edge of the frame, and further, a woman in black standing between the table and the wall at the back. The owner [Leonard Borwick] has folded the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a> back so that the figure is unseen, as it did not seem to him to equalize with the other parts of the picture'. This was evidently done early on, as the reproduction in <i>The Studio</i> in 1909 shows the picture in its present state. The concealed parts are still there, but have suffered considerable paint losses.</p>
<p>The picture as it is today is rather similar to a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> of 1900 (Michaëlis-Bramsen No.283) known as 'Dust in a Shaft of Sunlight', which appears to show the same room and the same window, but with a different effect of light and shade. The room is apparently one in Hammershøi's house at Strandgade 30, Copenhagen.</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.352, reproduced p.352</p>

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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) Copenhagen, Strandgaade 30 countries and continents Denmark domestic door features furnishings interior - non-specific interiors natural phenomena objects places shadow sunshine table table cloth weather window