Emil Carlsen : Golden tree, ca.1904.

 

ECA record control number: 26597

Archives of American Art #: [none]

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: Golden tree

Alternate work titles:
2020 : Golden tree [from online auction catalog]

Work date: ca.1904 [based on similar style and palettes and similar works]

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas mounted on board
Work dimensions: 14-1/2 x 12 inches [unframed] | 18 x 15-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches [framed]

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

Verso:
Marking type: Gallery label.
Location: Work versp.
Text: Inscribed with title and identified on a label from Wickersham Gallery Inc., New York, affixed to the backing.

ECA category: Landscape
ECA sub-category: Trees

Archives of American Art subjects:
Landscape
Landscape — Connecticut
Landscape — Season
Landscape — Season — Autumn
Landscape — Tree

Description of work:

Provenance / ownership:
2020 Private collection of [unknown] ;
2020 ( Skinner Auctioneers & Appraisers of Fine Art [1971- ], 274 Cedar Hill Street, Marlborough, MA 01752 ;
2020 Estate of [unknown], New york, NY ;
ca.1975 Private collection of [unknown], New York, NY ;
ca.1975 ( Wickersham Gallery Inc, 959 Madison Avenue, New York, NY [ca.1960-ca.1975] ) ;
1975 Estate of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law [likely] ;
1966 Private collection of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law [likely] ;
1943 Private estate of Dines Carlsen [1901-1966], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s son [likely] ;
1932 Private collection of Luella May (Ruby) Carlsen [c.1869-1943], New York, NY, the artist’s wife [likely] ;
ca.1904 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.

References / citations:
– Skinner Auctioneers & Appraisers of Fine Art [1971- ], Marlborough, MA, online auction catalog, “Fine paintings & sculpture – 3390B Marlborough”, May 31, 2020, lot #285, illustrated : color.

Related works:
– Emil Carlsen : Sunlit landscape, ca.1904.

ECA notes:
– Condition report : Surface grime, minor canvas deformation to l.r. corner, minute canvas tear to u.r. corner, signature reinforced or apocryphal. [2020]
– Likely on of the more than 250 sketches that Carlsen kept and used to create works that was eventually sold off and broken up among a few dealers at the death of his daughter-in-law, Florence Carlsen in 1975.

Price history:
2020 – $8,750 USD [auction] ;

 

Document information

Document permalink:
https://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=26597

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2020.26597

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:
May 14, 2020

Last updated: July 17, 2020 at 16:46 pm