Emil Carlsen : Venice, 1908.

 

ECA record control number: 26038

Archives of American Art #: -none-

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: Venice

Alternate work titles:
2018 : Venice? [from online auction catalog]
2018 : Venice [from online auction catalog]

Work date: ca.1908 [date based on known trip with Carlsen’s family.]

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 20 x 24 inches [unframed]

Inscribed/signed front:
Location: At lower left
Dated: No.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen.’.

Verso:
Marking type: Worn and aged formly white small horizontal rectangular frame label.
Location: Left center frame verso.
Text: ‘House of Heydenryk’.

Marking type: Hand-written numbers in faded black felt tip? marker.
Location: Bottom middle frame verso.
Text: ‘101374’. [text likely a date of the framers work or due date.]

ECA Category: Waterscapes
ECA Sub-Category: Venice

Archives of American Art Subjects:
Cityscape
Cityscape — Italy
Cityscape — Italy — Venice

Description of work:

Provenance/ownership:
2020 [likely returned to original owner] ;
2020 ( Skinner Auctioneers & Appraisers of Fine Art [1971- ], 274 Cedar Hill Street, Marlborough, MA 01752 ) ;
2020 ( Skinner Auctioneers & Appraisers of Fine Art [1971- ], 274 Cedar Hill Street, Marlborough, MA 01752 ) ;
2018 [unknown new or returned to original owner] ;
2018 ( Post Road Gallery [1952- ], 2128 Boston Post Road, Larchmont, NY ) ;
ca.1974 [unknown owner] [based on date marked on frame] ;
1974 Estate of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law [likely based on date of framing] ;
1966 Private collection of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law [likely based on date of framing] ;
before 1966 Private estate of Dines Carlsen [1901-1966], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s son [likely based on date of framing] ;
1932 Private collection of Luella May (Ruby) Carlsen [c.1869-before 1966], New York, NY, the artist’s wife [likely based on date of framing] ;
ca.1908 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:
2020 Skinner Auctioneers & Appraisers of Fine Art [1971- ], Marlborough, MA, “Fine paintings & sculpture – 3390B Marlborough”, May 31.
2020 Skinner, Boston, MA, “Sale #3390B/Boston – American & European Works of Art”, May 14-15.
2018 Post Road Gallery [1952- ], Larchmont, NY, “The fall auction”, October 13.
1909 Bauer-Folsom Galleries, New York, NY, “Paintings by Emil Carlsen“, March 30 – April 10. [possibly based on related works and date of framing/reframing] ;

References/citations:
– Skinner Auctioneers & Appraisers of Fine Art [1971- ], Marlborough, MA, online auction catalog, “Fine paintings & sculpture – 3390B Marlborough”, May 31, 2020, lot #294, illustrated : color.
– Skinner, Boston, MA, online auction catalog, “Sale #3390B/Boston – American & European Works of Art”, lot #?, illustrated : color, May 14-15, 2020.
– Post Road Gallery [1952- ], Larchmont, NY, online auction catalog, “The fall auction”, October 13. 2018, lot #943, illustrated : color [online].

Related works:
– Venice, 1908 [variation of this work]

ECA notes:
– Condition report : Lined, prominent craquelure, tenting (primarily to the lower third), minor surface grime. [2020]
– Carlsen may have painted this over a Christmas vacation with his family in 1908 or 1909 in preparation for his Bauer-Folsom Galleries show held in April of 1909. The light shown in the paintings would match December/January. -ECA
– Contacted directly from Skinner auctions on March 11, 2020, email #315FAAC09FEF484094C2C6F7D91ADBF9F04DEA.
– It is likely that this painting was part of the Bauer-Folsom Galleries exhibition of 1909 and may not have sold based on the date it was framed or reframed in 1974. Most Carlsen studies or small final studio works that were unsold stayed with the family, eventually passed to Carlsen’s daughter-in-law, Florence B. G. S. Carlsen, who started to sell off some of the works a year or two before her own death in 1974. In 1974 Florence’s death precipitated the release of a large cache of Carlsen works into the market, most brought to market by 5 or 6 dealers who split up the estate.

Price history:
2020 – [unsold] [auction] ;
2018 – [unsold] [auction] ;
ca.1974 – [unknown] [likely retail] ;

 

Document information

Document permalink:
https://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=26038

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2018.26038

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:
October 9, 2018

Last updated: July 17, 2020 at 16:40 pm