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Emil Carlsen : Autumn, wood interior, Ogunquit, Maine, 1920.

Emil Carlsen Autumn Wood Interior, Ogunquit, Maine, 1920
Emil Carlsen Autumn Wood Interior, Ogunquit, Maine, 1920

 

Autumn Wood Interior, Ogunquit, Maine, 1920
Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Oil on canvasboard
6-1/2 x 5-1/4 inches (canvas) | 12-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches (framed)

Signed: At lower left. ‘Emil. Carlsen.’. On verso title, initialed and dated. ‘Wood Interior / E. C. / Oct. 11 1920’.

Archives of American Art #: -none-

Provenance:
2001 Heckscher Museum, 2 Prime Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743-7702 (Accession #2001.9.44)
1973 Baker-Pisano [1949-2000], 350 West 55th St., New York, New York 10019 (purchased November 1)
c.1973 Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., 40 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY [1923-1994]
1966 Estate of Florence B.G.S. Carlsen [c.1900-c.1985], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s son’s wife
before 1966 Estate of Dines Carlsen [1901-1966], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s son
1932 Luella May Carlsen [c.1869-before 1966], New York, NY, the artist’s wife
1920 Emil Carlsen, the artist

Exhibitions:
c.1973 Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., New York, NY [1923-1994], “unknown exhibition”, #49. (based on label on back of work)

References:
– “Baker-Pisano [1949-2000] collection notes on Emil Carlsen Works” by D. Frederick Baker, January 8, 1974.

Notes:

– Label attached to back with artist signed ‘E.C.’.
– Verso: Written in artist’s hand ‘Ogonquit, Me.’.
– Exhibition number on back of frame: ‘No. 49’.

– “Baker-Pisano [1949-2000] collection notes on Emil Carlsen Works” by D. Frederick Baker, January 8, 1974.
Painting Description: “Intimate landscape, in pastel shades of green, yellow and gray-pink. Several tree trunks to the right of center and an evergreen tree to the left of center. Foreground is clearing in wood in Gray-pink. Background is wooded in shade of light yellow, light green with accents of pink and light blue.”
Frame Description: “Light yellow gold frame, plain except for ribbing at outer edge and inner liner. Painting under glass.”

– Current color pictures provided by Andrew Schaeffer of The Heckscher Museum on August 1, 2016, via email/Wetransfer.

Price:
c.1973 = $650 USD (worth approx. $3,617.44 in 2016)