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Soren Emil CarlsenRoses in a Copper Bowl1893
1893
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This elegant and rare still life of red roses is by one of America's finest still life artists. It is framed in a fine Empire style 24 karat gilded and carved frame. Roses in a Copper Bowl represents the pinnacle of still life painting as Carlsen has described it above. Before painting marine landscapes, Carlsen was first known as one of the finest still-life painters of his era. Painted in 1893 during Carlsen’s period in New York, this canvas also draws comparisons to the work of John LaFarge, John White Alexander and James Abbott MacNeil Whistler. These artists simplified their subjects and limited their color palettes to convey mood and feeling. However, they failed to rival Carlsen’s ability to render copper, brass and bronze of every conceivable quality and shade of color, from high polish to heavy patina. He is the only American whose work can be likened to that of Chardin in terms of skill level, simplicity of subject, and interpretation of light. This particular work is endearing in that Carlsen usually built his surfaces up to an opaquer level, and here we see him using heavy medium mixed in with his paint to create a washier, thinner surface almost suggestive of a sketch rather than a finished work. This technique gives the work a relaxed feel and naturalistic quality
- Creator:Soren Emil Carlsen (1853-1932, American)
- Creation Year:1893
- Dimensions:Height: 25.75 in (65.41 cm)Width: 37.5 in (95.25 cm)
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- Condition:The painting is relined and the surface is in good condition. Minor retouch under a UV light but normal and minimal for age of painting. Frame is in lovely condition and has an antiqued patina.
- Gallery Location:Greenwich, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU141329416312
Soren Emil Carlsen
Born Soren Emil Carlsen in Copenhagen around 1853, Carlsen first began his studies at the Royal Danish Academy as a teenager. Yet he was not to remain long there, leaving in 1872, at nineteen years old for America where he settled in Chicago, working for an illustration house to support himself. By 1875 he had saved enough money to travel to both Paris and Copenhagen to paint and study, staying for six months before returning to America, this time to New York. By this time he had already developed a unique love affair with the still life. In New York he befriended fellow painters such as John Francis Murphy; yet the city could not contain him and after only a year he relocated to Boston, making friends with the likes of Childe Hassam with whom he maintained a life-long friendship. Carlsen remained quite poor throughout his time in Boston where he spent the next eight years. Yet his abilities were developing quite rapidly in still life painting, in a style which scholars refer to as “kitchen still lifes.” that often included fish or birds paired with pots and pans suggesting the presence of a cook outside the frame and introducing a human element to still life subjects. This style very much echoed the work of the Dutch and Spanish Masters of still life, particularly that of Jean Simeon Chardin and, to a lesser degree, Johannes Vermeer. The similarity is not coincidental, as Carlsen spoke and wrote often of the influence of these artists on his own work, and yet he was already beginning to develop the eye for color, light and composition that today we regard as the undeniable Carlsen style. In 1884 Carlsen moved again to Paris, staying for two years. Here, as always he kept a low profile, preferring the mediation of working in the studio to the more social and recreational gathering places of artists and expatriates. In 1887 Carlsen moved to San Francisco, working for the directorship of the San Francisco Art Association School, and in 1891 moved back to New York where he lived until 1901. It is during this period, in the last decade of the nineteenth century that could be regarded as the most formative in terms of the development of the techniques that produced the paintings for which he is most celebrated today.
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