Property from a Private San Francisco, California Collector Emil Carlsen (1848-1932) Game Still Life signed 'Emil Carlsen' (lower left) oil on canvas 36 3/4 x 50 3/4in (93.3 x 128.9cm) Painted circa 1894-98. Fußnoten Provenance Private collection, San Francisco, California. By descent to the present owner. Exhibited (possibly) New York, Society of American Artists, Sixteenth Annual Exhibition, March 12-April 14, 1894, p. 60, no. 257. The present work is recorded in the Emil Carlsen Archives as number 26414. The online version of the archive is available at www.emilcarlsen.org. We wish to thank Bill Indursky, Archive Director at the Emil Carlsen Archives, New York, for his assistance cataloguing this lot. According to Bill Indursky, the present work is believed to have been painted in 1894 at the beginning of Emil Carlsen's grey period despite the inscription in pencil on the reverse that dates the work as 1898. In Bill Indursky's expert opinion, the pencil inscription is not in the artist's hand. Emil Carlsen in an effort to be respectful and resourceful, almost always produced two or three works from each bird and grouping of flowers that he painted. It is believed that the present work is the first in a series of two or three works where Emil Carlsen used this bird as his subject. It is possible that this work was exhibited at the Society of American Artists Sixteenth Annual Exhibition in New York held in the spring of 1894. The piece also relates closely in style and composition to other works painted by Carlsen during the early 1890s, such as Nature Mort (1895, Emil Carlsen Archives number 2172) and especially Still life with Swan (1894, Emil Carlsen Archives number 2117).
Property from a Private San Francisco, California Collector Emil Carlsen (1848-1932) Game Still Life signed 'Emil Carlsen' (lower left) oil on canvas 36 3/4 x 50 3/4in (93.3 x 128.9cm) Painted circa 1894-98. Fußnoten Provenance Private collection, San Francisco, California. By descent to the present owner. Exhibited (possibly) New York, Society of American Artists, Sixteenth Annual Exhibition, March 12-April 14, 1894, p. 60, no. 257. The present work is recorded in the Emil Carlsen Archives as number 26414. The online version of the archive is available at www.emilcarlsen.org. We wish to thank Bill Indursky, Archive Director at the Emil Carlsen Archives, New York, for his assistance cataloguing this lot. According to Bill Indursky, the present work is believed to have been painted in 1894 at the beginning of Emil Carlsen's grey period despite the inscription in pencil on the reverse that dates the work as 1898. In Bill Indursky's expert opinion, the pencil inscription is not in the artist's hand. Emil Carlsen in an effort to be respectful and resourceful, almost always produced two or three works from each bird and grouping of flowers that he painted. It is believed that the present work is the first in a series of two or three works where Emil Carlsen used this bird as his subject. It is possible that this work was exhibited at the Society of American Artists Sixteenth Annual Exhibition in New York held in the spring of 1894. The piece also relates closely in style and composition to other works painted by Carlsen during the early 1890s, such as Nature Mort (1895, Emil Carlsen Archives number 2172) and especially Still life with Swan (1894, Emil Carlsen Archives number 2117).
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