Lot 11
  • 11

Emil Carlsen 1853-1932

Estimate
10,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Emil Carlsen
  • Girl in Vegetable Shop
  • signed Emil Carlsen and dated 1897, l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 50 in. by 43 in.
signed Emil Carlsen and dated 1897, l.r.

Provenance

Craig and Tarlton, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina
Acquired from the above, 1976

Exhibited

New York, National Academy of Design, 1897
Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art and traveling, American Paintings, The Landon Collection, September 1979-July 1981, no. 30
Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia Art Museum, A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts, August-November 2005, p. 58, illustrated in color p. 59

Literature

The Magazine Antiques, September 1974, p. 325

Condition

Lined; some isolated craquelure, under UV: a 5 inch horizontal line of inpainting to address a scratch at lower left center, a 3 by 2 inch L-shaped repaired tear and a 2 inch vertical repaired tear at lower right corner, an area of inpainting in dress at center left, and two dime size areas of retouching in center background and at left center edge.
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