Lot 63
  • 63

Emil Carlsen

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Emil Carlsen
  • Breakers
  • signed Emil Carlsen and dated 1908 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 28 by 34 inches
  • (71.1 by 86.3 cm)

Provenance

Macbeth Gallery, New York (probably)
Robert Hadley, Esq., New York
Will Richeson Jr., California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976 (gift from the above and sold: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, December 5, 1985, lot 134)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Macbeth Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Emil Carlsen, N.A. from the collection of Robert Handley, Esq of New York, 1919, no. 15, illustrated (as Marine)
San Francisco, Wortsman Rowe Galleries; Los Altos, California, Rubicon Gallery; The El Paso Museum of Art; Houston, Texas, Robert Rice Gallery; New York, Coe Kerr Gallery; The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; West Palm Beach, The Norton Gallery of Art, The Art of Emil Carlsen: 1853-1932, 1975, no. 4, pp. 23-24, 92, illustrated

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from an overall network of craquelure. UNDER UV: No apparent inpainting. Work presents nicely and is ready to hang.
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