Portræt-Hovede. Forarbejde til Frk. Else Aagesens Portræt. Hoved en face. Naturl. Størrelse. A portrait. Study for the portrait of Else Aagesen. 1913. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 32 x 29 cm. Sophus Michaëlis and Alfred Bramsen, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vilhelm Hammershøi no. 362. Exhibited: Kunstforeningen, "Arbejder af Vilhelm Hammershøi" (part 2) 1916 no. 110, listed with the title "Studie til Frøken Else Aagesens Portræt" (Study for a portrait of miss Else Aagesen). Literature: Søren Rasmussen, "Slægts og Erindringsbog", 1956, reproduced p. 219. Provenance: The estate auction of the late Vilhelm Hammershøi 1916 no. 3, here with the title "Portrætstudie. Ung Dame" (Study for a portrait of a young woman), reproduced p. 1. Merchant J. Weidemann. Søren Rasmussen, Stenagergaard. The portrait is a study for the three-quarter length, full face portrait of Else Aagesen (91 x 68 cm) no. 361 in the Catalogue Raisonné, which was sold for 1,050,000 DKK. at Bruun Rasmussen's Jubilee Sale 795, 2008, no. 58. Inscribed on the reverse of the frame "Strandgade 25", where to Hammershøi moved in the beginning of 1913. Estimate in DKK : 100000 150000