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JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (FRENCH, 1824-1904)

Lot 89
14.12.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 600 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1105809
Lot 89 | JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (FRENCH, 1824-1904)
Estimate value
£ 600 000 – 800 000
JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (FRENCH, 1824-1904)

A Bashi-Bazouk Chieftan

signed 'J.L. GEROME' (upper left)

oil on canvas

23 5⁄8 x 28 7⁄8 in. (60 x 73.3 cm.)

Painted circa 1880-82.





Provenance

Private Collection, New York.

Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet, New York, 12 January 1955, lot 40 as The Harem Guard.

Possibly, with Schweitzer Gallery, New York, between 1960 and 1975.

Andrew Sordoni, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Andrew Sordoni III, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and by descent until 1981.

with The Fine Art Society, London, 1983, where purchased by

Private Collector, United Kingdom, where purchased by

Private Collection, USA, by a private treaty in 2003 as Un Chef Bachi-Bouzouk (A Bashi-Bazouk Chieftan).



Literature

Possibly, Catalogue de Paris, 1883.

Possibly, F.F. Hering, The Life and Works of Jean- Léon Gérôme, New York, 1892, p. 242 (as Arnaut Chief).

Dayton Art Institute, Jean- Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), Dayton, OH, 1972, p. 58, illustrated p. 59, (as Arnaut Smoking and incorrectly dated ca. 1865).

G. M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paris, 1986, p. 248, no. 304, illustrated p. 109 & p. 249, (as whereabouts unknown).

G. M. Ackerman, Jean Léon Gérôme, His Life, His Work, Paris, 1997, p. 114, illustrated p. 114.

G. M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme: Monographie Révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, pp. 119, 304-305, no. 304, illustrated.

L. Rama, Les Albanais de Léon Gérôme / Shqiptarët e Léon Gérôme, Albania, 2016.

The Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme from the Shafik Gabr Collection, 2018, p. 25, illustrated.



Exhibited

Possibly, Paris, Galerie George Petit, Exposition internationale de la peinture, organisée par un groupe d’artistes, première année, 1882, no. 14, as Bachi-Bouzouck.

Dayton, Ohio, The Dayton Art Institute; Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Art; and Baltimore, Maryland, Walters Art Gallery, Jean Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), 1972-3, no. 17, as Arnaut Smoking (incorrectly dated ca. 1865).

Washington, D.C., Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, 19th Century Orientalist Paintings..., 8-30 November 2007, no. 2, as An Albanian Smoking (also known as A Bashi-Bazouk Chieftain).

Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Gérôme and the Lure of the Orient, 2014, as An Albanian Smoking.
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