Lot 192
Charles Anton Kaeselau (Swedish-American, 1889-1972). Oil on board, n.d. Signed at lower right. A beautiful painting by American artist Charles Anton Kaeselau portraying a classic New England scene: a schooner at sea before a cloudy sky. The stunning seascape displays a magnificent ship with marvelous white masts and dots of a crew on deck as it sails across a restless blue-green ocean lined with white-capped waves. White clouds seem to mirror the form of the towering ship on the horizon, with an ominous dark gray sky looming just above. Size of painting: 8" W x 5.5" H (20.3 cm x 14 cm); of frame: 13.5" W x 11" H (34.3 cm x 27.9 cm)
Karl (Charles) Anton Kaeselau was a Swedish-American painter and art educator born to the merchant Jean Friedrich Kaeselau and Albertina Aquilina Bergstrom. Kaeselau worked in his youth as a lithographer at Idun's printing house. He went to England in 1900 where he studied art at the Kensington School of Art before continuing his studies for a few years at the Academie Julian in Paris. In 1908, he emigrated to America where he studied for a time at the Art Institute of Chicago before pursuing private studies for Charles Webster Hawthorne and Joaquin Sorolla. On behalf of the American government, he executed several frescoes in the Concord, Massachusetts post office. He participated in a large number of exhibitions in America, the British colonies and Australia. He was represented in the Swedish-American exhibition in Gothenburg in 1923. His art consists of figures, marines, portraits and winter landscapes in oil or watercolor. Kaeselau was active as a teacher of painting and composition at the Child Walker School of Art and The Stuart School of Design in Boston. For a few years he ran his own painting school in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He is represented at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Philips Memorial Gallery of Fine Arts in Washington.
Provenance: private southern California, USA collection, acquired December 2007; ex-Richard Opfer Auctioneering, Inc., Timonium, Maryland, USA
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- Condition: Signed at lower right. Small chip to paint in upper right and some nicks and minor scuffs. Craquelure to paint in lower left. Set in wooden frame.
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