Carl G. Olsen (b.1893)
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Carl G. Olsen (b.1893)

Portrait of Roald Amundsen, bust length in a grey coat and homburg

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Carl G. Olsen (b.1893)
Portrait of Roald Amundsen, bust length in a grey coat and homburg
signed and dated 'Carl G. Olsen' (lower left)
oil on canvas
27½ x 19½in. (69.8 x 49.6cm.)
with a framed group of nine autograph signatures on a fragment of orange canvas including Roald Amundsen, Oscar Wisting, and other crew of the dirigible Norge, inscribed on the backing board '1926/Teller/Alaska' (presumably a souvenir of the 1926 flight of the Norge from Spitsbergen, Norway to Teller, Alaska, the first trans-Arctic flight across the pole and the first flight from Europe to America)
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

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