$43,050
Edwin Lord Weeks (American, 1849-1903) Market in Ispahan or Caravansary outside the Bazaar in Ispahan Signed "ELWeeks" l. l., titled and dated "c. 1885" on a label from The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, affixed to the frame backing board. Oil on canvas, 18 1/2 x 22 3/8 in. (47.0 x 56.5 cm), in a period frame. Condition: Lined, thin horizontal line of retouch to l.l. quadrant, possible retouch to c.l. edge, fine, stable craquelure. Provenance: From the collection of Howard P. Diamond, M.D., New York, a prominent nasal plastic surgeon. N.B. Born in Newtonville, Massachusetts, Edwin Lord Weeks lived most of his life abroad. He studied with Jean-Louis Jerome and Léon Bonnat in Paris and settled in that city in 1880. Throughout his career Weeks travelled widely in North Africa, the Middle East, Spain, and India, inspiring the paintings and prints that brought him great recognition as an accomplished Orientalist. Dr. Ellen K. Morris reviewed the painting at hand via digital photographs, and she writes that the painting was executed c. 1893-95 in Weeks's Paris studio based on studies Weeks did in Ispahan during his expedition across Persia in the autumn of 1892. The painting depicts a man in typical Persian headwear riding a heavily decorated camel outside a portion of the bazaar in Ispahan, with various vendors adjacent to the bazaar and its typical blue grille-work shelters echoed in the vestments of the figure on the camel. The most compelling wares for sale are the
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-09-23
