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In the Sea
Provenance
Kunsthandlung Fritz Gurlitt, 1884. Adalbert Mylius-Gemuseus, Basel, Switzerland, 1886 to at least 1927 [see Basel 1927]; by descent to Herr Simon-Mylius, Basel. Albert Vorster-Burckhardt, Basel from 1950, offered for sale, Sotheby's, New York, May 23, 1990, lot 127; bought in; sold by Vorster-Burckhardt through Sotheby's to the Art Institute, 1990.
Exhibition history
Berlin, Kunsthandlung Fritz Gurlitt, 1884. Basel, Kunsthalle, Basel Kunstverein, Katalog der Böcklin-Jubiläums-Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle zu Basel, 1897, no. 76. Basel, Kunsthalle, Arnold Böcklin (1827-1927): Austellung zur Feier des 100. Geburtsjahres, 1927, no. 123a. Basel, Kunsthalle, Arnold Böcklin: Ausstellung zum Gedächtinis an seinen 50. Todestag, 1951, no. 104. Basel, Kunstmuseum, Arnold Böcklin 1827-1901: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Plastiken-Ausstellung zum 150. Geburtstag, 1977, p. 207, no. 169 (ill.). Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Art, 1870–1940, March 28–June 8, 2003, no. 4. Art Institute of Chicago, Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth, February 14–April 26, 2009, cat. 91 (ill.).
Publications
Heinrich Alfred Schmid, Arnold Böcklin: Eine Auswahl der hervorragendsten Werke des Künstlers in Photogravüre (Munich, 1897), vol. III, pl. 14 (ill.). K. Woermann, "Arnold Böcklin," Von Apelles zu Böcklin, Esslingen, vol. 2, 1912, p. 162. Carl Neumann, "Zu Arnold Böcklins siebenzigsterm Geburtstag," Die Kunst für Alle, vol. 13, 1898, p. 9 (ill.). Heinrich Wölfflin, "Die Böcklin-Ausstellung zu Basel," Kunstchronik 1898, p. 36. Franz Hermann Meissner, Arnold Böcklin (Berlin, 1901), pp. 106-7. Henriette Mendelsohn, Böcklin (Berlin, 1901), pp. 144, 182, 183. Gustav Floerke, Zehn Jahre mit Böcklin (Munich, 1902), pp. 26, 82-3 (ill.). Adolf Frey, Arnold Böcklin in Zürich (Zürich, 1902), p. 13. Otto Lasius, Tagebücher (Berlin, 1903), p. 134. Heinrich Alfred Schmid, Böcklin-Verzeichnis (Munich, 1903), no. 326. Alfred Julius Meier-Graefe, Der Fall Böcklin und die Lehre von den Einheiten (Stuttgart, 1905), pp. 230, 255. Kornel Jaskulski, Der Symbolismus Böcklins (Czernowitz, 1909), pp. 24, 26. Fritz von Ostini, Böcklin (Bielefeld, 1925) pp. 80, 82, 103 (ill.). Hanns Floerke, Arnold Böcklin (Munich, 1927), p. 57. Rold Andree, Arnold Böcklin (dissertation, Freie University, Berlin, 1962), pp. 26-7. Rof Andree, Arnold Böcklin: Die Gemälde (Zürich, 1977) p. 449, no. 376 (ill.). "Arnold Böcklin: In the Sea (Im Meere), 1883," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, 2 (1994), pp. 116-17. Jay A. Clarke, “Neo-Idealism, Expressionism, and the Writing of Art History,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28, 1 (2002), pp. 28-29. Jay A. Clarke, Stephanie D’Alessandro, Carola Kupfer, Mark Pascale, Virginia Voedisch, “Portfolio,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28, 1 (2002), pp. 85-86, cat. 4.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827–1901)
- Date
- 1883
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 86.5 × 115 cm (34 3/8 × 45 3/4 in.); Framed: 130.8 × 158.8 × 17.8 cm (51 1/2 × 62 1/2 × 7 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- Switzerland
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Joseph Winterbotham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1990.443
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