Harald Slott-Møller (b. Copenhagen 1864, d. s.p. 1937)
A young woman wearing a red cape, presumably the painter's wife Agnes, enjoying the sunset on Midsummer's Eve. Signed Harald Slott-Møller. Oil on canvas. 62×50 cm.
Harald Slott-Møller has dealt with the motif in various variations. For example, a painting was sold at Bruun Rasmussen auction 663, 1999 no. 235, which depicts the same woman as in the present painting sitting between two women dressed in white and looking at the Midsummer's Eve bonfires on the opposite bank of the fjord. In the collection of the Vejle Museums, there is a painting entitled “Skt. Hans Aften ved Vejle Fjord” (Midsummer's Eve at Vejle Fjord) from 1904 (Inv. No. 80/318), which depicts a woman wearing the red cape sitting with her back turned and looking out over the fjord in the bright summer night.
Provenance: Bruun Rasmussen auction 734, 2004 no. 1692, ill. p. 127.
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Paintings, drawings and icons, 14 June 2023