Harald Slott-Møller (b. Copenhagen 1864, d. s.p. 1937)
Midsummer Night. Three young women enjoying the warm, bright summer night. C. 1910. Signed Harald Slott-Møller. Oil on canvas. 67 × 85 cm.
The woman in red in the middle probably represents the artist's wife Agnes Slott-Møller (1862–1937).
A painting with the same motif entitled “Sankt Hansnat” (Midsummer Night), dated 1908 with the measurement 100×126 cm, was exhibited at Charlottenborg 1910 no. 435.
Provenance: Bruun Rasmussen auction 663, 1999 no. 235, ill. p. 91. Bruun Rasmussen auction 830, 2012 no. 45, ill. p. 45, here sold by the American art collector Waring Jones.
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Fine art, 16 September 2024