About This Artwork

Wilhelm Freddie
Danish, 1909–1995

Portable Garbo, 1941

Oil on canvas
8 1/2 x 13 in. (22 x 33 cm)
Signed, l.l.: "~freddie~/~juni~/1941"
Marjorie Blum-Kovler Collection; Harry and Maribel G. Blum Foundation, 1990.415

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Aarhus, Ovenlyssalen, Freddie, Surrealisme, 1941, no. 59.

Odense, Vestergade 68, Freddie, Surrealisme, 1941, no 59.

Marseilles, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Peintures, Cinema, Peintures, October 7, 1989–January 14, 1990.

Columbus, Ohio, Wexner Center for the Arts, Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections II, September 19, 1997–January 4, 1998.

Ownership History

Else Thomsen. Galerie 1900–2000, by 1990. Purchased by Art Institute, 1990.