Emil Carlsen : Still-life with pottery jars, 1903.

 

ECA record control number: 1273

Archives of American Art #: 80046381, 89510004

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: Still life with pottery jars

Alternate work titles:
1999: Still life with pottery jars

Work date: 1903 [date from front of canvas]

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 24-7/8 x 30 inches

Inscribed/signed front:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: Yes,
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen. 1903 -‘.

Verso: unknown.

ECA category: Still-life
ECA sub-category: Kitchen

Archives of American Art subjects:
Still Life
Still Life — Fruit
Still Life — Fruit — Lemon
Still Life — Other
Still Life — Other — Container
Still Life — Other — Cookware

Description of work:

Provenance/ownership:
2018 Private collection of [unknown] ;
2018 ( Sotheby’s [1744- ], 1334 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021 ) ;
1982 Private collection of Willard G. “Bill” Clark [1930-2015] & Elizabeth “Libby” Clark [ca.1930-?], San Francisco, CA ;
1981 ( Thomas Colville Fine Arts [1973- ], 111 Old Quarry Road, Guilford, CT 06437 | 1000 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10075 ) ;
1981 ( Christie’s [1766- ], Rockefeller Center, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 ) ;
after 1903 Private collection of [unknown] ;
1903 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:
2018 Sotheby’s [1744- ], New York, NY, “American art”, May 23.
2001 Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, NY, “Selections from the Libby and Bill Clark collection”, October 29 – December 7.
1999 Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, NY, “Quiet magic : the still-life paintings of Emil Carlsen“, October 28 – December 10.
1982 Christie’s [1766- ], Rockefeller Center, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, “Sale”, December 11, 1981, lot 91)

References/citations:
– Sotheby’s [1744- ], New York, NY, online auction catalog, “American art : property from the collection of Willard and Elizabeth Clark”, May 23, 2018, lot #35, illustrated : color.
– Emil Carlsen : conscious painting by William Eric Indursky, Emil Carlsen Archives, New York, NY, 2017, figure #183, illustrated : color on page 179.
– “Soren Emil Carlsen : the Hammershoi of Manhattan” by Kim Lykke Jensen, Narayana Press, Gylling, Denmark, 2008, illustrated: color, page 46, figure 28.
– Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Selections from the Libby and Bill Clark collection”, October 29 – December 7, 2001, page 16, illustrated plate #3.
– The Magazine Antiques, New York, NY, “Living with antiques : a collection where east meets west” by Michael Quick, November, 2001, volume 160, number 5, page 684, illustrated plate VII.
– Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Quiet magic : the still-life paintings of Emil Carlsen“, October 28 – December 10, 1999, #22.
– Antiques, May, [ad for painting by Thomas Colville], 1982, page 1012, illustrated.

Related works:

ECA notes:

Price history:
2018 – $325,000 USD [auction]
1982 – [unknown] [retail]
1981 – [unknown] [auction]

 

Document information

Document permalink:
https://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=1273

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2017.1273

Digital document provenance:
Original compiled and researched document by the Emil Carlsen Archives, 266 West 21st Street, Suite 4E, New York, NY 10011.

Document license:
Creative Commons Corporation shareAlike (sa) license. Some of the information contained within this document may hold further publication restrictions depending on final use. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine.

Image license:
The author of this artwork died more than 70 years ago. According to U.S. Copyright Law, copyright expires 70 years after the author’s death. In other countries, legislation may differ.

Record birth date:
February 2, 2014

Last updated: May 27, 2018 at 0:05 am