Emil Carlsen : The mandarin’s necklace, 1915.
ECA Record Control Number: 1843
Archives of American Art #: JUL J0047777 [digital photo archive]
Record Level: Item
Record Type: Movable Work
Work Title: The mandarin’s necklace
Alternate Work Titles:
2014: The mandarin’s necklace [ECA refers to the painting with from its original name]
1999: Mandarin beads [from exhibition catalog essay]
1921: The mandarin beads [from book]
1916: The maindarin’s necklace [from exhibition catalog]
Work Date: 1915 [dated based on first time it was shown and known example with similar background from 1916.]
Work Creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Work Medium: Oil on canvas
Work Dimensions: 27-1/4 x 15-1/4 inches
Inscribed/Signed Front:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: No.
Text: ‘Emil Carlsen’.
Verso:
Marking Type: Label
Location: Back of painting
Text: ‘Paintings by American Artists Macbeth Gallery 450 Fifth Avenue New York’.
ECA Category: Still Life
ECA Sub-Category: Asian
Archives of American Art Subjects:
Dress
Dress — Accessory
Dress — Accessory — Jewelry
Still Life
Still Life — Flower
Still Life — Other
Still Life — Other — Orientalia
Still Life — Other — Vase
Ethnic
Ethnic — Chinese
Description of Work:
“…there is a singular and beautiful work by Mr. Carlsen. It is sigular because it differs from his usual subjects. The Mandarin’s Necklace is its title-just a necklace and also a “still-life.” And yet there is a Mandarin behind the necklace, but the artist has, in a hesitant way tried out “color and form” in the figure, as the modernists phrase it. On the pallid figure of the Celestial the necklace shines out like a jewel in color, with its beads in brown and blue…”
Citation: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, NY, “The World of Art“, January 26, 1916, Page 8
Provenance/Ownership:
ca.1990s Private collection of Christopher B. Mailman [1966- ] and Simone M. (Mittelstadt) Mailman [1968- ], New York, NY ;
after 1975 (probably ca.1990s) ( A. J. Kollar Fine Paintings, LLC [1975- ], 1421 East Aloha St., Seattle, WA 98112 ) ;
ca.1965 Private collection of [unknown] ;
ca.1916 Private collection of Robert J. Handley, Esquire [1881-1965], New York, NY ;
1916 ( Macbeth Gallery, The [1892-1953], [1935-1953] 11 East Fifty-seventh Street | [1924-1934] 15 East Fifty-seventh Street | [1906-1923] 450 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY | [1892-1905] 237 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY ) ;
1915 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .
Exhibition History:
1921 The Macbeth Galleries, New York, NY, “Opening Exhibition: Season 1921-1922”, October 11-20.
1916 The Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY, “Paintings by Emil Carlsen, Helen M. Turner, Daniel Garber“, January 19 – February 1.
References/Citations:
– Owner confirmed to emilcarlsen.org & emilcarlsen.org photographed.
– Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, NY, “Quiet Magic: The Still-Life Paintings of Emil Carlsen”, October 28 – December 10, 1999, figure 40, illustrated: b&w.
– California Art Research, Volume Four, Abstract from WPA Project 2874 (O.P. 65-3-3632), San Francisco, CA, January, 1937, page 51.
– “Pots and Pans or Studies In Still-Life Painting” by Arthur Edwin Bye, Princeton, NJ, 1921, pages 213-222, illustrated: B&W book frontispiece.
– The Macbeth Galleries, New York, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “Opening Exhibition: Season 1921-1922”, October 11-20, 1921, #1 as Mandarin Necklace, not illustrated.
– The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, NY, “The World of Art“, January 26, 1916, Page 8.
– The Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY, “Paintings by Emil Carlsen, Helen M. Turner, Daniel Garber“, January 19 – February 1, 1916, #4 (as The Mandarin’s Necklace).
– Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Image #JUL J0047777.
Related Works:
– Roman Glass, ca.1916 [similar background, palette, technique and subject matter.]
ECA Notes:
– The tapestry is Medieval French
– The beads are Chinese
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, NY, “The World of Art“, January 26, 1916, Page 8
“…there is a singular and beautiful work by Mr. Carlsen. It is singular because it differs from his usual subjects. The Mandarin’s Necklace is its title-just a necklace and also a “still-life.” And yet there is a Mandarin behind the necklace, but the artist has, in a hesitant way tried out “color and form” in the figure, as the modernists phrase it. On the pallid figure of the Celestial the necklace shines out like a jewel in color, with its beads in brown and blue…”
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