Gerhard Munthe
'C'est Ainsi' tapestry, 1898
Wool on cotton
Made by the Norsk Aaklaede og Billedtepper Vaeveri, Norway.
Made by the Norsk Aaklaede og Billedtepper Vaeveri, Norway.
h. 113 1/3 in. (288 cm) - w. 88 1/2 in. (225 cm)
Signed GMUNTHE.INV / NABV XXVII and dated ANNO 1898.
Further images
COLLECTION OF MUSÉE D'ORSAY, PARIS
COLLECTION OF MUSÉE D'ORSAY, PARIS
Provenance
Blomqvist Kunsthandel, Oslo, Norway, 17th October 2005 - Norwegian private collection (2005-2020) - Blomqvist Kunsthandel, Oslo, Norway, 4th June 2020, lot 1.
Exhibitions
Presumably the Exhibition of Applied Arts at the Hirschwald Gallery, Berlin, 1899.
Publications
‘Den norske Textilindustri paa Bergensudstillin- gen’, in Bergens Tidende, number 205, 1898, page 2 - Jan Kokkin, Gerhard Munthe : Norwegian Pioneer of Modernism, 2018, pages 12, 49 and 50.