ECA Record Control Number: 3905

Archives of American Art #: -none-

Record Level: Item

Record Type: Movable Work

Work Title: Opaline Sea

Alternate Work Titles:
Opaline Sea
Opaline Sea, Ogunquit

Work Date: 1923

Work Creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work Medium: Oil on canvas stretched over board
Work Dimensions: 25 x 30 inches

Inscribed/Signed Front:
Location: At lower right.
Dated: No.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen.’.

Verso: unknown

ECA Category: Waterscape
ECA Sub-Category: Surf

Archives of American Art Subjects:
Landscape
Landscape — Maine
Landscape — Maine — Ogunquit
Waterscape
Waterscape — Coast

Description of Work:

Provenance/Ownership:
2012 Private collection of [unknown] .
2012 ( Bonhams [1793- ], 580 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022 | 220 San Bruno Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103 ) ;
ca.2006 ( George Stern Fine Arts [1988- ], 8920 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90069 ) ;
ca.1923 Private collection of George D. Pratt, New York, NY ;
ca.1923 ( Vose Galleries [1841- ], 238 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116 ) ;
1923 ( 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 ) ;
1923 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition History:
2012 Bonhams, San Francisco, CA, December 11.
1937 American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Inc, New York, NY, “Property of the Estate of the Late George D. Pratt”, January 15-16.
1923 The Macbeth Galleries, 450 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, “Paintings by Emil Carlsen, N. A., Theodore Robinson J. Alden Weir, P. N. A.”, October 30 – November 19.
1923 The Macbeth Galleries, New York, NY, March 6-27.

References/Citations:
– Bonhams, San Francisco, CA, Sales Cat., December 11, 2012, Lot #29.
– American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Inc, New York, NY, Sale Catalog, “Property of the Estate of the Late George D. Pratt”, January 15-16, 1939, lot #366, page 77, not illustrated.
– The Macbeth Galleries, 450 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “Paintings by Emil Carlsen, N. A., Theodore Robinson J. Alden Weir, P. N. A.”, October 30 – November 19, 1923, #3, illustrated: B&W.
– The Macbeth Galleries, New York, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “Recent Paintings by Emil Carlsen, N.A.”, March 6-27, 1923.

Related Works:

ECA Notes:

Price History:
2012 – $35,000 USD.

Document Information

Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2016.3905

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:
June 29, 2016

Last Update:
January 17, 2017