L. A. Ring (b. Ring 1854, d. Roskilde 1933)
Purchased by Ordrupgaard in December 2020. “De blinde”. The blind. After Pieter Breughel the Elder, “The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind” dated 1568 (with the measurement 86×154) at the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. Signed and dated L. A. Ring. Kopi Neapel 26/1 94. Oil on canvas. 89×157 cm.
H. Chr. Christensen, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of L. A. Ring no. 3 (under copies), here with the title “De blinde”.
Exhibited: Charlottenborg, “Mindeudstillingen for L. A. Ring”, 1933 no. 102.
Literature: Peter Hertz, “Maleren L. A. Ring”, 1934, p. 273. Here Hertz mentions that Ring travelled around Italy as a tourist. The artist’s desire to paint was not great until he came upon Pieter Breughel the Elder’s captivating depiction of “The Blind Leading the Blind”. Ring knew of the painting beforehand from a small reproduction and from the description in Karl Madsen's "Hollandsk Malerkunst” (Dutch Painting). The deeply felt and empathetic depiction as well as the moving characterisation had from the first moment occupied Ring to a great extent as an expression of an artistic perception and view on both life and the burden of human existence that touched upon related chords in his own mind.
Provenance: Landowner Johan Knudsen (1910). Wholesaler Dethlef Jürgensen. Bruun Rasmussen auction 435, 1982 no 143, reproduced p. 123.
Later the same year at Gemäldegalerie in Berlin Ring also copies Petrus Christus' work “Portrait of a young gorl” (see catalogue no.141).
Condition report on request. Please contact: fine-art@bruun-rasmussen.dk
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Paintings & drawings, 1 December 2020