€130
Star Lot: A stunning antique original Alfred Olsen (Danish, b.1854 - d.1932) oil on canvas painting dating to 1913, featuring a coastal landscape scene rendered in fine yet deliberate brushstrokes, in a warm palette of pink greys and blue greens. Signed, titled and dated bottom right and housed in a fabulous heavy gilt frame with name plaque to base. Olsen's work fetches into the mid hundreds at auction.
MM: 82 x 58 cm including frame
Very little is known about Alfred Olsen, save that he was born in Fejo in Denmark in 1854; that he studied with Jens Jorgen Jensen-Egeberg (1848-1922); and that he made a living as a painter of marines in Copenhagen (Benezit). Jensen-Egeberg taught at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen; he produced landscapes which were the equivalent of Olsen’s seascapes, where the Scandinavian sky, full of light and high cloud, filled the greater part of the painting. Olsen’s work seems only peripherally to admit the existence of the land, but his skies show that he had absorbed much from the teacher who was only six years his elder. The absence of public record of his work and of the artist himself is a testimony, as with so many ‘neglected’ artists, to a great popularity at a domestic level, such that these works tend to stay in the homes which appreciate them and do not often emerge onto the market. There is a video of this lot on our Facebook, Instagram and tictok page under South Dublin Auction.
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