Emil Carlsen : Ming vases [and ginger jar], 1931.
ECA record control #: 27333 (old #1785)
Archives of American Art #: 83940032 [Art Inventories], JUL J0047809 [Digital Photo Archive]
Record level: Item
Record type: Movable work
Work title: Ming vases (and ginger jar) [ECA re-named to help clarification]
Alternate work titles:
2018 : Ming vases (and ginger jar) [auction house adapted ECA name]
2016 : Ming vases [and ginger jar] [ECA re-named to help clarification]
1975 : Ming vases [from exhibition catalog]
1975 : Ming vases [from exhibition catalog]
1958 : Chinese porcelain [from exhibition catalog]
1932 : Chinese porcelain [from exhibition catalog]
Work date: 1931 [from painting date on front]
Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 30 x 23 inches
Inscribed / signed:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: yes
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen. 1931.’.
Verso :
Marking type: Handwritten numbers in black felt tip marker.
Location: Top left corner of verso backing board.
Text: ‘23555-1 [horizontally crossed out with two lines] / C25312-1’.
Marking type: Printed and typewritten white horizontal rectangular gallery label [yellowed].
Location: Top left corner of verso backing board.
Text: ‘HAMMER GALLERIES [printed, centered] / 51 EAST 57th STREET NEW YORK NY 10022 [printed smaller font, centered] / J 23555-1 CARLSEN, Emil 1853-1932 [typewritten] / Ec. Danish [typewritten] / “The Ming Vases” [typewritten] / Oil/Canvas: 32 1/8 x 25 1/8 Inches [typewritten] / SDLL: Emil Carlsen 1931 [typewritten] / EXHIBITED: Southern Alleghenies / Museum of Art Oct/Nov 1977 [typewritten]’.
Marking type: Printed and typewritten white horizontal rectangular museum exhibition label.
Location: Top middle of verso backing board.
Text: ‘[printed logo in an ‘A’ shape left justified] / Greenville County Museum of Art [printed, rounded font, middle right justified] / 420 College Street [printed, rounded font, middle right justified] / Greenville, South Carolina 29601 [printed, rounded font, middle right justified] / [separating printed line] / Emil Carlsen (1931) [typewritten, left justified] / The Ming Vases [typewritten, underlined, left justified] / AMERICAN REALIST AND IMPRESSIONIST [typewritten, left justified] / PAINTINGS from the collection of [typewritten, left justified] / Mr. and Mrs. Haig Tashjian [typewritten, left justified] / March 10 – April 22, 1984 / [separating printed line]’.
Marking type: Printed and typed white horizontally rectangular museum exhibition label.
Location: Top right corner of verso backing board.
Text: ‘PARRISH ART MUSEUM – EXHIBITION LABEL [printed, centered] / SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK 11976 [printed smaller font, centered] / EXHIBITION [printed, left justified] [dotted line] PAINTINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. & MRS. HAIG TASHJIAN [typewritten] / DATE [printed, left justified] [dotted line] April 17 – June 6, 1982 / ARTIST [printed, left justified] [dotted line] Emil Carlsen / TITLE [printed, left justified] [dotted line] “The Ming Vases” [typewritten] / MEDIUM [printed, left justified] [dotted line] Oil on Canvas [typewritten] SIZE [dotted line] [left blank] / LENDER [printed, left justified] [dotted line] Mr. & Mrs. Haig Tashjian [typewritten] / MUSEUM NUMBER [printed, left justified] [dotted line] [left blank]’.
Marking type: Printed and typewritten white horizontal rectangular museum exhibition label.
Location: Top right of verso backing board [below Parrish Art Museum label].
Text: ‘October/November 1977 [typewritten, center justified] / SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM [printed, center justified]/ OF ART [printed, center justified] / Exhibition: [printed, left justified] The Art of Emil and Dines [typewritten, left justified] / Carlsen [typewritten, left justified] / Title: [printed, left justified] The Ming Vases [typewritten, left justified] / Emil Carlsen [typewritten, left justified] / Medium: [printed, left justified] Oil/canvas [typewritten, left justified] / Signed: [printed, left justified] Emil Carlsen/1931 [typewritten, left justified] / Date: [printed, left justified] 1931 [typewritten, left justified] / Catalog number: [printed, left justified] [left blank] / Size: [printed, left justified] 301/2 x 23 [typewritten, left justified]’.
Marking type: Printed and typewritten white horizontal rectangular gallery label.
Location: Center middle of verso backing board [below Greenville County Museum of Art label].
Text: ‘Joan Michelman Ltd. [printed, center justified] / 23 East 74th Street New York, N.Y. 10021 [printed, center justified] / 212 535-4524 [printed, center justified] / February 9, 1987 [typewritten, left justified] / EMIL CARLSEN [typewritten, left justified] / (1853-1932) [typewritten, left justified] / The Ming Vases [typewritten, underlined, left justified] / oil on canvas [typewritten, left justified] / 32 x 25 inches [typewritten, left justified] / signed and dated lower left [typewritten, left justified] / AMERICAN ART 1870 1940 EUROPEAN ART 1850 1920 [printed, center justified]’.
Marking type: Printed and typewritten white horizontal rectangular gallery label.
Location: Center middle of verso backing board [right of Joan Michelman Ltd. label].
Text: ‘[printed with white knockout type Vance Jordan logo, left justified] / VANCE JORDAN FINE ART INC. [printed, left justified on logo] / 958 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10022 Tel (212) 570-9500 [printed, left justified on logo] / Quiet Magic: The Still-Life Paintings [typewritten, center left justified] / of Emil Carlsen [typewritten, center left justified] / October 28 – December 10, 1999 [typewritten, center left justified] / (illustrated in catalogue) [typewritten, center left justified] ‘.
Marking type: Pencil handwritten script white horizontal rectangular label with heavy blue border and thin white line border inside.
Location: Bottom left of verso backing board.
Text: ‘M. R. RICE [handwritten in ball point pen, center justified] / 22 E 41ST [handwritten in ball point pen, center justified] / NYC [handwritten in ball point pen, center justified] / Emil Carlsen [handwritten in ball point pen, left justified] / 24 x 32 1/2 – sight [handwritten in ball point pen, center justified] / 26 3/4 x 35 1/4 frame. [handwritten in ball point pen, center justified]’.
Marking type: White horizontal rectangular label.
Location: Bottom left of verso backing board covered by the pencil handwritten script label [above].
Text: ‘M R? B[?] [?] [?] / [illegible word] / Emil Carlsen / [illegible] / [illegible]’.
Marking type: Printed white horizontal rectangular bar code label.
Location: Bottom right of verso backing board.
Text: ‘[printed bar code] / [illegible type below]’.
ECA category: Still-life
ECA sub-category: Orientalia
Archives of American Art subjects:
Still Life
Still Life — Other
Still Life — Other — Container
Still Life — Other — Vase
Ethnic
Ethnic — Chinese
Description of work:
A vertical composition still life with three Asian ceramic vessels set on a brown/sand base and background. In the foreground sits a white and blue figurative pattern ginger jar with black lid. In the mid-ground on the right, next to the ginger jar, is a white and blue patterned tall Eastern Zhou-style vase. In the background on the left is an additional tall Eastern Zhou-style vase in white with red/pink figurative pattern of two figures on a horse. The space has dried flowers and stems strewn throughout. The background is a brown/sand color. – ECA
Provenance / ownership:
2018 Private collection of [unknown] ;
2018 ( Christie’s [1766- ], Rockefeller Center, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 ) ;
after ca.1987 Private collection of [unknown], New York, NY ;
1987 ( Michelman Fine Art [1975- ] | Joan Michelman, Ltd., 23 East 74th Street, New York, NY 10021, acquired February 9 ) ;
ca.1979 Private collection of Haig E Tashjian [1925-2013 or 1909-1990] & Hermine[?] E.[?] Tashjian [1925?- ], New York, NY | Laguna Niguel, CA ;
ca.1979 ( Hammer Galleries [1928- ], 32 East 67th Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10065 ) ;
ca.1978 Private collection of [unknown], Baltimore, MD ;
1975 ( Robert M Rice Gallery [ca.1975-ca.1982], [ca.1978-ca.1982] 2010 South Post Oak Road, Houston, TX 77056 | [ca.1975-ca.1977] 2734 Virginia Street, Houston, TX 77098, part of the owner’s private collection ) ;
1975 ( Wortsman Rowe Fine Arts Inc [1972-1975], 516 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California 94102 ) ;
1975 Estate of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law ;
1966 Private collection of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law ;
before 1966 Private estate of Dines Carlsen [1901-1966], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s son ;
1932 Private collection of Luella May (Ruby) Carlsen [c.1869-before 1966], New York, NY, the artist’s wife ;
1931 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .
Exhibition history:
2018 Christie’s [1766- ], New York, NY, “Sale #16084 – American art”, May 22.
1999 Vance Jordan Gallery, New York, NY, “Emil Carlsen: Quiet Magic“, October 28 – December 10.
1985 Bruce Museum of Arts and Science [1912- ], Greenwich, CT, “The still life paintings of Emil Carlsen”, March 31 – May 5.
1984 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, “American realist and impressionist painting from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Haig Tashjian“, March 10 – April 22.
1982-1983 Parrish Art Museum [1898- ], Southampton, New York, “Paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Haig Tashjian“, April 17 – June 6 ; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, January 10 – March 20.
1980 Grand Central Art Galleries [1923-1966], New York, NY [sponsor], “American realism 1880-1980“, O’Meara Gallery Ltd., Santa Fe, October 4 – November 1, 1980 ; Kirkpatrick Center, Oklahoma City, November 9 – December 6, 1980.
1979 Grand Central Art Galleries [1923-1966], New York, NY, “Impressionist moods : an American interpretation”, April 17 – May 5.
1977 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Loretto [1967- ], Loretto, PA, “Pere et fils : art of Emil and Dines Carlsen“, August 20 – October 23.
1975 Wortsman Rowe Galleries Inc [1972-1975], San Francisco, CA, “The art of Emil Carlsen: 1853-1932“, January 10-February 21 ; Rubicon Gallery, Los Altos, CA, January 17-February 28 ; The El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, March 2-March 30 ; Robert Rice Gallery, Houston, TX, April 10-May ; Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY, June-July ; The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA, August 20-October 10 ; The Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, November – December.
1958 Grand Central Art Galleries [1923-1966], New York, NY, “Memorial exhibition of Emil Carlsen, N. A. 1853-1932″, January 14-25.
1932 Grand Central Art Galleries [1923-1966], New York, NY, “Exhibition of paintings and sculpture contributed by artist members“, November. [This needs cross reference and may actually be referring to another Grand Central Art Gallery exhibition for “The American exhibition at the Venice international”, 1932.]
References / citations:
– Christies [1766- ], New York, NY, online auction catalog, “Sale #16084 – American art”, May 22, 2018, lot #74, illustrated : color.
– Sent new images and information directly from Christie’s auction house on March 28, 2018, email id#VI1PR07MB3277BD9D59D8B59CE560B8D7DCA30@VI1PR07MB3277.eurprd07.prod.outlook.com.
– Emil Carlsen : conscious painting by William Eric Indursky, Emil Carlsen Archives, New York, NY, 2017, figure #209, illustrated : color on page 205.
– Soren Emil Carlsen : the Hammershoi of Manhattan by Kim Lykke Jensen, Narayana Press, Gylling, Denmark, 2008, illustrated : color, page 81, figure 63.
– Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Quiet magic : the still-life paintings of Emil Carlsen“, October 28 – December 10, 1999, #43.
– “The art of Emil Carlsen : mastery of the mundane” by J.M. Holzer, B.A., thesis, Princeton University, 1997, pages 44-45, illustrated : plate 17.
– Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, exhibition catalog, “The still life paintings of Emil Carlsen”, March 31 – May 5, 1985, illustrated : b&w.
– Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, “Paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Haig Tashjian“, April 17 – June 6, 1982 ; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, January 10 – March 20, page 53, illustrated : color on page 36 as figure #20 & in b&w on page 53.
– Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY [sponsor], exhibition catalog, “American realism 1880-1980“, O’Meara Gallery Ltd., Santa Fe, October 4 – November 1, 1980 ; Kirkpatrick Center, Oklahoma City, November 9 – December 6, 1980, #5, illustrated : b&w on page 10, figure #6.
– Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Impressionist moods : an American interpretation“, April 17 – May 5, 1979, pages 1, 8, 10, 15-16, #17 shown as The ming vases, not illustrated.
– Southwest Art Magazine, Houston, TX, “Emil Carlsen”, April, 1975, page 34, illustrated : color?.
– Illuminator, “Haig Tashjian : ‘A Proud Possessor’” by R.G. Pisano, Winter, 1978-79, page 21, illustrated : color?.
– Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, exhibition catalog, “Pere et fils : art of Emil and Dines Carlsen“, August 20 – October 23, 1977, #32, illustrated : color.
– Rubicon-Wortsman Pub., San Francisco, CA, exhibition catalog, ”Art of Emil Carlsen : 1853-1932”, 1975, pages 18 & 91, #36, illustrated : color on page 13.
– Southwest Art magazine, “Emil Carlsen“, April, 1975, pages 34-37, illustrated : color, page 34.
– The Grand Central Art Gallery, New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Memorial exhibition of Emil Carlsen, N. A. 1853-1932″, January 14-25, 1958, #16, not illustrated.
– Nineteen thirty two, “The significance of collecting” by G. Pratt, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY, 1932, illustrated : b&w on page 4.
– Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, image #JUL J0047809.
Related works:
– China blue, 1924 [same still life items but different composition]
Depicted objects:
Tall Asian vase – 14753
Tall Asian vase – 15911
Ginger jar – 14733
ECA notes:
-Painted in New York, NY in 1931 [unknown citation].
– “The work depicts three variations of 18th century Chinese porcelain. On the far right is a Chinese blue and white porcelain yenyen vase, Kangxi period, circa 1700. At the far left is a Chinese ‘famille rose’ porcelain vase, Yongzheng/early Qianlong period, circa 1735-45. In the middle is a Chinese blue and white porcelain ginger jar, Kangxi period, circa 1720.” – Christie’s, 2018.
Price history:
2018 – $100,000 USD [auction]
1987 – [unknown] [retail]
ca.1975 – [unknown] [retail]
1975 – [unknown] [retail]
1958 – [unknown] [retail]
Document information
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Digital-born document number:
ECA.2014.27333
Digital document provenance:
Original compiled and researched document by the Emil Carlsen Archives, 266 West 21st Street, Suite 4E, New York, NY 10011.
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Record birth date:
February 5, 2014
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