Portrait of the Artist Olaf Gulbransson. Signed Karsten 02. Oil on canvas. 100 x 72 cm. #%i%#Literature: Nils Messel: "Ludvig Karsten", Messel Forlag, Oslo, 1995, p. 32. Exhibited: "Statens Kunstudstilling" (Høstudstillingen), Copenhagen, 1902 (stamped on the reverse of the canvas). Exhibited: "Stockholmsudstillingen", Stockholm, 1904 (exhibition label with the artist's signature on the reverse). Exhibited: "Schwarz-Weiss-Austellung", Secession Berlin, 1906, cat. no. 1628. Provenance: Private Danish collection of Norwegian art. "There is a new young painter called Ludvig Karsten. He is exhibiting two figure paintings ? a portrait of Olaf Gulbransson and one that he calls "Syg? (Sick). Both are excellent indications, but nothing more. The act of indicating what the painter has thought was for us introduced by Edvard Munch". (From the review of the autumn exhibition at Christiania in 1902 for the Norwegian newspaper Morgenposten. Nils Messel: "Ludvig Karsten," p. 32.) Estimate in DKK : 75000 100000