Emil Carlsen : Still life with copper pot, vase, and garlic, 1906.

Archives of American Art #: [none]

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: Still life with copper pot, vase, and garlic, 1906.  [from auction catalog]

Alternate work titles:
2025 : Still Life with copper pot, vase, and garlic [from auction catalog]
1994 : Still life with garlic [from auction catalog]

Work date: 1906 [from front of canvas]

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 20 x 16 inches

Inscribed / signed front:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: Yes.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen. 1906.’

Verso: unknown.

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

Archives of American Art subjects:
Still Life
Still Life — Other
Still Life — Other — Container

Description of work:

Provenance / ownership:
2025 [tba] ;
2025 ( Shannon’s [1997- ], 354 Woodmont Rd, Milford, CT 06460 ) ;
1995 Private collection of [unknown] ;
1995 ( Sotheby’s [1744- ], 1334 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021 ) ;
ca.1927 Private collection of [unknown] ;
1927 ( 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 & Milch Galleries [1912-1981], 108 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019 ) ;
ca.1921 ( Milch Galleries [1912-1981], 108 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019 ) ; [likely]
ca.1921 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], returned to artist ; [likely]
1908 ( Bauer-Folsom Galleries [1908-1921] | Folsom Galleries [1908-1921], 396 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 11215 ) ; [likely]
1906 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:
2025 Shannon’s [1997- ], Milford, CT, “#0525 Fine Art Auction”, May 8.
1995 Sotheby’s, New York, NY, “Sale #6782 – American paintings, drawings, and sculpture“, November 29.
1927 Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, “Macbeth-Milch circuit exhibition of contemporary American paintings at Dayton Art Institute“, November 30 – [unknown date].

References / citations:
– Shannon’s [1997- ], Milford, CT, “#0525 Fine Art Auction”, May 8, 2025, lot #45.
– Sotheby’s, New York, NY, sale catalog, “Sale #6782 – American paintings, drawings, and sculpture“, November 29, 1995, lot #69.
– Dayton Daily News, Dayton, OH, “Work of 35 artists shown in Macbeth-Milch exhibition at Dayton Art Institute“, Thursday, December 1, 1927, page 14, not illustrated.

Related works:

ECA notes:

– Dayton Daily News, Dayton, OH, “Work of 35 artists shown in Macbeth-Milch exhibition at Dayton Art Institute“, Thursday, December 1, 1927, page 14, not illustrated.
“…It is a tribute to the transcendent skill and insight of the late Emil Carlsen that his group of a black bottle, a copper kettle and three sprigs of garlic, backed by a profound shadow, attracted more admiration at the Wednesday opening than did any other of the 39 pieces shown….”

Price history:
2025 : [tba – $12,000-$18,000 estimate] [auction]
1995 : $15,525 USD [auction]

Document information

Document permalink:
https://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=32878

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2014.1704

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:
February 4, 2014

Last updated: April 2, 2018 at 15:36 pm