Emil Carlsen : Still life with blue vase, ca.1921.
ECA record control number: 18441
Archives of American Art #: -none-
Record level: Item
Record type: Movable work
Work title: Still life with blue vase
Alternate work titles:
2017: Still life with blue vase [from auction catalog]
2016: Still life with vases and cup [from exhibition catalog]
1982: Blue and white jug and vase [from book]
Work date: ca.1921 [date based on first known publication date in a book from 1921]
Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 33 x 28 inches
Inscribed/signed front: unsigned.
Verso: unknown
ECA category: Still Life
ECA sub-category: Orientalia
Archives of American Art subjects:
Ethnic
Ethnic — Chinese
Still Life
Still Life — Other
Still Life — Other — Container
Description of work:
Provenance/ownership:
2017 Private collection of [withheld] Leigh, [withheld], [withheld] ;
2017 ( Christie’s [1766- ], Rockefeller Center, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 ) ;
2017 Private estate of Richard “Dick” Jay Schwartz [1939-2016], Nyack, NY, returned to owner unsold ;
2017 ( Christie’s [1766- ], Rockefeller Center, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 ) ;
1976 Private collection of Richard “Dick” Jay Schwartz [1939-2016], Nyack, NY ;
ca.1976 ( M Knoedler & Co [1846-2011], [2011-1970] 19 East 70th Street, New York, NY | 14 East 57th Street, New York, NY | 556 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY | [1911] Fifth Avenue & 34th Street, New York, NY | [1897] Pittsburgh | [1908] London | [1895] Paris ) ;
1975 ( Irma Rudin, Ltd. [1974-2006], 366 Broadway, New York, New York 10013 ) ;
1975 Private estate of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law ;
1966 Private collection of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law ;
before 1966 Estate of Dines Carlsen [1901-1966], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s son ;
1932 Private collection of Luella May (Ruby) Carlsen [c.1869-before 1966], New York, NY, the artist’s wife ;
ca.1921 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .
Exhibition history:
2017 Christie’s [1766- ], New York, NY, “American art online – sale #14317”, November 14-21.
2017 Christie’s [1766- ], New York, NY, “American art – sale #14314”, May 23.
2016 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, “JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970“, August 27 – December 18.
1975-1976 M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Recent Acquisitions from the American Painting Department”, December 9, 1975 – January 31, 1976.
References/citations:
– Emil Carlsen : conscious painting by William Eric Indursky, Emil Carlsen Archives, New York, NY, 2017, page 207, figure #211, illustrated : color.
– ECA contacted directly by recent owner via email on Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 12:33 PM with id#CAOK6j-Y+37U7Dy7caNjLVeZKH6HYbEd6Pjc7TwTVSsPtYTUyrw@mail.gmail.com.
– Christie’s [1766- ], New York, NY, online auction catalog, “American art online – sale #14317”, November 14-21, 2017, lot #185, illustrated: color.
– Christie’s [1766- ], New York, NY, “American art – sale #14314”, May 23, 2017.
– Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970“, August 27 – December 18, 2016, illustrated: color on page 270, #170.
– American Impressionism by R. J. Boyle, Boston, MA, 1982, pages 136-37, illustrated : color [as Blue and white jug and vase].
– M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Recent Acquisitions from the American Painting Department”, December 9, 1975 – January 31, 1976.
– Pots and pans or studies in still-life painting by Arthur Edwin Bye, 1921, pages 213-222, illustrated: b&w on page 223 [unnumbered].
Related works:
– Chinese rose jar, ca.1923.
– Still life, chinese vase, 1922.
ECA notes:
– CONDITION REPORT from November 14, 2017 : “This report was prepared by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.: This work is in beautiful state. It is on one of two canvases on the stretcher. While in theory the second canvas could be a lining, it seems that both canvases are from the same period. The artist may have stretched two canvases in order to support his vigorous scraping technique. The painting is well stretched, clean and varnished. There are a few dots in the upper center of the right side and two spots in the center of the left side that seem to be retouches. The other colors that read slightly darker here and there throughout the remainder of the picture, for instance across the top of the picture, seem to be original pigment.”
– Frame by Eli Wilner & Co.
Price history:
2017 – $35,000 USD [auction]
2017 – unsold. [auction]
Document information
Document peralink:
http://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=18441
Digital-born document number:
ECA.2017.18441
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:
January 25, 2017
Last updated: February 8, 2018 at 17:53 pm