SAL record control number: 130098 ;

Record level: Item ;

Record type: Movable work ;

Work title: Arrangement in grays [from archive website] ;

Alternate work titles:

Work date: ca. 1921  [from archive website] ;

Work creator: Søren Emile “Emil” Carlsen (1848-1932) [RA 1903-1932] ;

Work medium: Oil on canvas ;
Work dimensions: 36 x 36 inches ;

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

Verso: [none] ;

SAL category: Oil ;
SAL sub-category: Still-life ;

Archives of American Art subjects:
Object
Object — Vegetable
Object — Vegetable — Onion
Still Life
Still Life — Other
Still Life — Other — Container
Still Life — Other — Cookware

Description of work:

Provenance:
Provenance/ownership:
2015 ( Sotheby’s [1744- ], 1334 York Avenue, New York 10021 ) ;
before 2015 Private collection of [unknown], FL ;
after 1922 Private collection of Robert Bahssin [1928-2014], Larchmont, NY ;
after 1922 ( Milch Galleries [1912-1981], 108 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019 ) ;
1922 ( 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 ) ;
ca.1921 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:
2015 Sotheby’s, New York, NY, “American paintings, drawings and sculpture“, October 2.
1985 Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, “The still life paintings of Emil Carlsen”, March 31 – May 5.
1923 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, “The painting of Emil Carlsen“, April 3-29.
1923 Art Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, “Exhibition of oil paintings by Lilian Westcott Hale, Emil Carlsen, and Charles H. Davis“, February 24 – March 18.
1922 Mystic Art Association, Mystic, CT, “Ninth annual summer exhibition“, August 23-x?
1922 Macbeth Galleries, New York, NY, “Thirty paintings by thirty artists : twelfth annual exhibition”, January 24 – February 13.

References / citations:
– Sotheby’s, New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “American paintings, drawings and sculpture“, October 2, 2015, lot #62, illustrated: color.
– Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, exhibition catalog, “The still life paintings of Emil Carlsen”, March 31 – May 5, 1985.
– The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, exhibition catalog, “The painting of Emil Carlsen“, April 3-29, 1923, #8, not illustrated.
– The Art Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, exhibition catalog, “Exhibition of oil paintings by Lilian Westcott Hale, Emil Carlsen, and Charles H. Davis“, February 24 – March 18, 1923, #7, not illustrated.
– The Christian Science Monitor, New York, NY, “Mystic Art Association exhibition“, August 23, 1922, page 6, illustrated: b&w.
– The Macbeth Galleries, New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Thirty paintings by thirty artists: twelfth annual exhibition”, January 24 – February 13, 1922, #3, illustrated: b&w.
– Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Image #JUL J0047789.

Notes:

– Sales Room Note: Correction Canvas is LINED.
– Canvas is unlined. SURFACE: Paint has faded; there are scratches in the paint on the bottom lower right, to the left of the bucket, and between the bucket and pitcher; horizontal white line running across middle of the pitcher. UNDER UV: No signs of inpainting.

– The Christian Science Monitor, New York, NY, “Mystic Art Association exhibition“, August 23, 1922, page 6, illustrated: b&w.
…”Emil Carlsen comes to Mystic with a lovely version of coppery pots and pans glinting against a gray wall, with a few fugitive onions just appearing. His sense of composition are rare appreciation of tactile values are seen in fine accord, and the simplicity of the whole is most refreshing.”…

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Digital-born document number:
SAL.2022.130098

Record birth date:
July 20, 2022

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