ID 1442996
Lot 191 | STANISŁAW CHLEBOWSKI (POKUTYNTSI 1835 - 1884 KOWANÓWKO)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
Holymen outside the Mosque at Bursa
signed and dated 'St. Chlebowski 1881.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 19 in. (61 x 48 cm.)
Provenance
Sent by the artist as a gift to Sefer Pasha in Cairo
Bertholdstein Castle (Sefer Pasha's residence in Austria)
Acquired by a private American collection from the heirs of Sefer Pasha in the 1920's
S. Wattenberg, New York, 1944-68
St. Stanczyk, London, 1968-80,
Acquired from the above by a private collector,
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 October 1998, lot 334,
where acquired by the present owner.
Exhibited
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Government Loan Exhibition, February-March 1944, no 14, as 'Mendicants at a Mosque'.
| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
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| Art style: | Romanticism, Orientalism |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Europe, Europe, Poland, Ukraine |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
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| Art style: | Romanticism, Orientalism |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Europe, Europe, Poland, Ukraine |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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