Oil on canvas
70.5x50.5 cm
Unsigned.
Certified on the reverse of the canvas by the artist’s son:
“Painted by Erik Werenskiold. Hereby certified by Dagfin Werenskiold, 18 February 1967.”
Inscribed on the reverse, on the stretcher, probably by the artist: “Werner.” Painted in 1893.
Exhibited:
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, 1955, cat. no. 49.
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, “Children in Norwegian Art,” 1958, cat. no. 61.
Lillehammer Art Museum, 13 June – 13 September 1998, cat. no. 21 (also produced as the exhibition poster).
Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner, Summer Exhibition (travelling exhibition):
Galleri Balaklava, Gamle Fredrikstad, 26 June – 25 August;
Kongsvinger Museum, Kongsvinger, 19–29 August;
and Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner, The Old Lodge (Den Gamle Logen), Oslo, 1–30 September 1993, cat. no. 56.
Provenance:
The portrait depicts the artist’s son, later Professor of Geography Werner Werenskiold (Paris, 28 April 1883 – Bærum, 2 August 1961), shown in the family’s home at Solberg Farm in Bærum (now an epilepsy hospital), where they lived as tenants from autumn 1889 until spring 1896, when they moved to their own house at Lysaker near Fornebu.
The painting hung in Werner Werenskiold’s home at Fridtjof Nansens vei 7, Lysaker, until his death. It was then inherited by his wife Bergliot Qviller Werenskiold (1903–1996), and subsequently by their daughter Ragnhild Werenskiold (1940–2011). Upon her death, it was inherited by the present owner.
Thanks to Professor Emerita Marit Werenskiold, University of Oslo, daughter of Werner Werenskiold, for information regarding the painting’s provenance.
Estimate
NOK 300,000