An artwork created by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is up for auction.

The 83-year-old queen is a prolific artist whose works have been included in numerous shows, but the chance to purchase one of her paintings is uncommon, according to a statement released on Tuesday by the Bruun Rasmussen auction house.

The auction house stated, “You now have the opportunity to acquire a very special – and not least royal – work of art.” The estimated price for the piece is between 75,000 and 100,000 Danish kroner ($11,000 and $15,000).

The artwork is from 1988, the year Margrethe began holding formal art exhibitions. After being awarded to Hans Sølvhøj (1919–1989), the Court Marshal at the time, it has stayed in his family ever since.

The queen used lyrical language to convey her inspiration from the natural world in the picture that is being put up for auction. Niels Boe-Hauggaard, a Bruun Rasmussen specialist in Modern & Contemporary Art, said in the release, “It is a highly personal artistic universe.”

He continued, “We are extremely excited to present this piece by H.M. Queen Margrethe II, which attests to her tremendous enthusiasm 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.”

Although Margrethe has shown at numerous prestigious galleries both domestically and overseas, according to Boe-Hauggaard, only those pieces that “come directly from people who have had a close relationship with the queen” have been made available for purchase.

In Copenhagen, this specific painting will be auctioned off at the start of March.

“Queen Margrethe has been fascinated with drawing since her childhood and has maintained the interest into her adult life, in which creative work has become a prioritized activity with a fixed day of the week in a busy calendar,” according to the website of Denmark’s royal house, the Kongehuset.

According to the royal family, her art initially gained recognition when she created the yearly Christmas seal in 1970.
The statement continues, “Since then, Queen Margrethe has been constantly active in a wide variety of artistic areas such as painting and watercoloring, design of scenography and costumes for ballet performances and film, embroidery, découpage clipping, and church textiles, among other things.”

Danes were taken aback when Margrethe abruptly declared at the beginning of January that she would abdicate after 52 years in power.

She gave her son Frederik the throne and he became King Frederik X on January 14, with thousands of people in Copenhagen to witness the beginning of a new era.