Emil Carlsen : Garlic and jug, 1918.

ECA record control number: 39207

Archives of American Art #: [none]

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: Garlic and jug  [from auction house]

Alternate work titles:
2025 : Garlic and jug  [from auction house]

Work date: 1918  [written in pencil at bottom edge]

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 21 x 18 inches  [unframed] | 28-1/4 x 25 inches  [framed]

Inscribed / signed front:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: Yes.
Text: ‘EMIL CARLSEN 42′ [I believe that Carlsen’s son signed it for his father after his passing hence the ’42’ for 1942 (a year before his mother passed], 10 years after his father’s death] / ‘1918’ [written small on the very edge left bottom center in pencil’]

Verso: [none]

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

Archives of American Art subjects:
Object
Object — Vegetable
Object — Vegetable — Onion
Still Life
Still Life — Other
Still Life — Other — Container
Still Life — Other — Cookware
Still Life — Vegetable
Still Life — Vegetable — Onion

Description of work:

Provenance / ownership:
2025 Private collection of [unknown] ;
2025 ( Doyle Auctions [1962- ], 175 E 87th St, New York, NY 10128 ) ;
after 1966 Private collection of [unknown], New York, NY ;
before 1966 Private estate of Dines Carlsen [1901-1966], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s son [likely based on the signature it was likely signed by Dines on behalf of his father] ;
1932 Private collection of Luella May (Ruby) Carlsen [c.1869-1943], New York, NY, the artist’s wife [likely] ;
1918 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:
2025 Doyle Auctions [1962- ], New York, NY, American paintings and prints, October 8.

References / citations:
– Doyle Auctions [1962- ], New York, NY, American paintings and prints, October 8, 2025, lot #63, illustrated : color (on-line catalog).

Related works:

ECA notes:
– Religned; a spot of inpainting approximately 1-1/2 x 3/4 inches in upper center background; a few other scattered spots [as per auction house catalog notes.]

Price history:
2025 – $12,160 USD [auction]

Document information

Document permalink:
https://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=39207

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2025.39207

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:

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