The painting by H.M. Queen Margrethe II will feature at Live Auction on the 5 of March. It is estimated at DKK 75,000–100,000.

Painting by H.M. Queen Margrethe II Coming up for Auction

A painting by H.M. Queen Margrethe is set to go under the hammer in March. Works by the queen have featured in a number of exhibitions, both in Denmark and abroad, but it’s not every day that the opportunity arises to acquire one of them. The royal work of art is estimated at DKK 75,000–100,000.

You now have the opportunity to acquire a very special – and not least royal – work of art, when a painting by none other than H.M. Queen Margrethe is coming up for Live Auction. Queen Margrethe’s artistic work has long been known to the public, and since the 1980s, many of Her Majesty’s works have been exhibited at a long list of exhibitions in Denmark, including at ARoS, ARKEN and Brandts Klædefabrik, as well as abroad. It is, however, extremely rare to see the queen’s paintings up for sale.

“We are very much looking forward to offering this work by H.M. Queen Margrethe II, which testifies to her immense passion for and prolificacy within art and creative work. Her great activity in the field has long been known to the public, but it is extremely rare for us to see her works at auction.”
Niels Boe-Hauggaard
Specialist in Modern & Contemporary Art at Bruun Rasmussen

A Personal Gift for the Court Marshal

The painting up for auction is from 1988. It was a personal gift from H.M. Queen Margrethe to her then Court Marshal, Hans Sølvhøj (1919–1989), and it has been in the ownership of his family ever since. The work is from the year she began to exhibit officially. Her list of exhibitions is impressively long, but the works rarely come up for sale. So, there are only a few paintings, such as this one, which one has the opportunity to acquire, because they come directly from people who have had a close relationship with the queen.

“The story of H.M. Queen Margrethe II and her oeuvre unfolds in a broad spectrum of areas, including the visual arts, scenography, découpage and costume design. The queen found her inspiration for the painting up for auction in the natural world, expressing it in a lyrical idiom. It is a highly personal artistic universe.”
Niels Boe-Hauggaard
Specialist in Modern & Contemporary Art at Bruun Rasmussen

Love of Art

H.M. Queen Margrethe II has been fascinated by creative work since her childhood – an interest she has carried with her into her adult life. The queen’s artistic work became known to the public after Her Majesty designed the annual Christmas seal in 1970 and, at the end of the 1970s, produced prototypes of the illustrations for Tolkien’s trilogy The Lord of The Rings under a pseudonym.