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Emil Carlsen(1848-1932)Self Portrait [Version 1] 35 1/2 x 29 1/2in
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Emil Carlsen (1848-1932)
Self Portrait [Version 1]
bears estate stamp (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
35 1/2 x 29 1/2in
Painted circa 1920.
bears estate stamp (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
35 1/2 x 29 1/2in
Painted circa 1920.
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist.
Leulla May (Ruby) Carlsen, New York, wife of the above, by descent.
Dines Carlsen, Falls Village, Connecticut, son of the above, by descent.
Florence B.G.S. Carlsen, Falls Village, Connecticut, wife of the above, by descent, 1966.
Estate of the above, 1975.
Worstman Rowe Galleries, San Francisco, California, 1975.
Pierre Art & Antiques, Petaluma, California.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 2002.
Exhibited
San Francisco, California, Worstman Rowe Galleries, and elsewhere, The Art of Emil Carlsen (1853-1932), January 10-December 1975, p. 17, no. 16, illustrated on cover.
The present work is recorded in the Emil Carlsen Archives as number 4920. 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, as a studio artist, Emil Carlsen would on occasion, create copies of his completed paintings or repaint a work in another medium. He would sometimes make variations of a composition from the original color studies. The artist did produce trace paper transfer contour drawings, though only a handful of these trace paper drawings are known to exist by the artist. Based on notes written to his gallery circa 1919, the artist's wife, Luella, requested that her husband make copies of family portraits. The present work is likely an earlier version of the painting owned by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., entitled by the Emil Carlsen Archive, Self Portrait [Version 2], circa 1920. Indursky concludes, "The National Portrait Gallery's example is a stiffer and more formal version of the composition. The artist's earlier studies, versions and sketches all demonstrate a freer, looser feel across the genre and it stands to reason that this version is most likely the precursor to the National Portrait Gallery's picture." Carlsen painted approximately seven self-portraits during his lifetime in a career that produced about 1,800 works of art.