Peder Balk (Hedemarken, Norway 1804 – 1887 Christiana) “Rjukanfossen” – The Rjukan Falls, c.1860 Oil on panel, 11.5 x 8.2 cmSigned lower left BalkeOn the verso an ownership label reading Fru Thekla Balke Lange / Eilert Sundts gt 57 / Kristiania and a further ownership inscription AarnæsExhibition labels pasted onto the frame read Kunstnernes Hus,…
Peder Balke (Hedemarken, Norway 1804 – 1887 Christiania) Mount Stetind, Northern Norway, c.1850 Oil on paper, 10.1 x 12.7 cmSigned lower left Balke Provenance:Private collection, Norway In these northern regions it is always the beauties of Nature that play the leading part while ‘Nature’s children’, human beings, must content themselves with a subordinate role.[1]…
Peder Balke(Hedemarken, Norway 1804 – 1887 Oslo) Northern Lights near Vardø, 1870s Oil on panel, 30.5 x 39.2 cm Provenance:Carl Balke (b.1845), the artist’s son, gift of the artist;Marie Schioldborg (née Balke), daughter of Carl;Frue Lund (née Schioldborg), daughter of Marie;By descent to her son. Exhibited:Peder Balke 1804-1887, Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, 1954, no. 102 The…
Peder Balke(Hedemarken, Norway 1804 – 1887 Oslo) Stormy Sea with Sailing Ship in Distress, 1860s Oil on paper, laid down on cardboard, 17.3 x 23.9 cmSigned lower right BalkeBearing a stamp on the verso DEP 666 (inventory stamp Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst) Provenance:Karl Balke, Oslo, the artist’s son, 1914;Possibly with Marie Schioldborg, née Balke,…