Edvard Munch
River landscape
Lot #1 |
2024-07-04 |
Sotheby's, London
European & British Paintings Day Auction
Category:
Painting
Estimate:
GBP 25,000 - 35,000 (currency of sale)
USD 32,000 - 44,800 (approx.)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: L24101
Auction name: European & British Paintings Day Auction
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: London
Start date: 2024-07-04
Currency: GBP
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: 19th Century Norwegian Art
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 14 by 18cm.
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
14
Width In Centimeters:
18
Height In Inches:
5.25
Width In Inches:
7
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Provenance
Heinrich Knudsen Thence by descent to his niece Mrs Rasch Egil Offenberg Sotheby's, 1967 Nils Erik Ström, Gothenburg, by 1973 Josef Kovar, Hamburg, by 1978 Hans Antonsson, by 1986 Sale: Christie's, Amsterdam, 3 December 2002, lot 208 (as Early morning river landscape ) Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch , Complete Paintings , Catalogue raisonné , 1898-1908 , vol. I, London, 2009, p. 51, no. 7 (as Landscape with trees and water ) Catalogue note This early landscape is dated to 1880 when Munch, just seventeen, had given up his studies at the technical college and decided to become a painter, enrolling at the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania.
Catalog summary
Property from a Private Collection Edvard Munch Norwegian 1863 - 1944 River landscape oil on paper laid down on board Unframed: 14 by 18cm., 5¼ by 7in. Framed: 36 by 39.5cm., 14 by 15½in. Provenance Heinrich Knudsen Thence by descent to his niece Mrs Rasch Egil Offenberg Sotheby's, 1967 Nils Erik Ström, Gothenburg, by 1973 Josef Kovar, Hamburg, by 1978 Hans Antonsson, by 1986 Sale: Christie's, Amsterdam, 3 December 2002, lot 208 (as Early morning river landscape ) Purchased at the above sale by the present owner Literature Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch , Complete Paintings , Catalogue raisonné , 1898-1908 , vol. I, London, 2009, p. 51, no. 7 (as Landscape with trees and water ) Catalogue note This early landscape is dated to 1880 when Munch, just seventeen, had given up his studies at the technical college and decided to become a painter, enrolling at the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania.