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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
Lot 81

John Fabian Carlson
(1875-1947)
Grim Lairs 50 1/4 x 60 1/8 in. (127.6 x 152.7 cm.)

7 November 2023, 14:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$25,600 inc. premium

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John Fabian Carlson (1875-1947)

Grim Lairs
signed 'John F. Carlson' (lower right) and signed again (on the reverse of the frame) and inscribed with title and signed again (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
50 1/4 x 60 1/8 in. (127.6 x 152.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1924.

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Mastro Auctions, Burr Ridge, Illinois, April 18, 2006, lot 119.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Exhibited
New York, National Academy of Design, One Hundred Second Annual Exhibition, March 23-April 17, 1927, no. 306.
Rhode Island School of Design, Annual Exhibition of Recent American Paintings, October 11-November 6, 1927, no. 7.
New York, Babcock Galleries, John F. Carlson: Masterworks, May 21-June 24, 1994, n.p., illustrated, and elsewhere. (as Eyrie (Grim Lairs))

Literature
"A New Criticism," The Art Digest, 1927, vol. II, no. 4, Mid-November 1927, p. 8.
P.H. Falk, A.A. Bien, eds., The Annual Exhibition Record of the National Academy of Design: 1901-1950, Madison, Connecticut, 1990, p. 119, no. 306.

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