Marie in the garden
painting by P.S. Krøyer
Marie in the garden (Danish: Marie i haven) is an 1895 painting by the Danish artist Peder Severin Krøyer. It depicts Krøyer's wife Marie Krøyer in the couple's garden in Skagen. The work measures 58.2 x 47.9 cm.
The work was sold at auction in 2000 at the Christie's auction house in London where it sold for £729,750. At the time of the sale this made the painting the second most expensive Danish work of art. The work is today in private ownership.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q29460514. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1895 and 2000.
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