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Property of a Gentleman

Osman Hamdy Bey

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Auction Closed

April 29, 02:54 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Gentleman 

Osman Hamdy Bey

Turkish

1842 - 1910

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signed and dated OHamdy Bey. 1881. upper left

oil on canvas

Unframed: 60.5 by 36cm., 23¾ by 14in.

Framed: 76.5 by 52cm., 30 by 20½in.

Prince Sadiq Yadigarov, Tiflis province, Georgia (by circa 1910; Muslim by faith, Yadigarov was a landowner in the Borchali district of Tiflis, head of the province’s cavalry division, and an avid art collector); thence by descent to his son, Archil

Private collector, Vienna, by circa 1930 (acquired from the above to whom related through marriage); thence by descent until 2008

Private collection, Austria (acquired from the above)

Mustafa Cezar, Sanatta Batı'ya Açılış ve Osman Hamdi, Istanbul, 1995, vol I , p. 368, the 1881 Sébah & Jouaillier photograph reproduced

Edhem Eldem, Osman Hamdi Bey Sözlüğü, Istanbul, 2010, p. 265, the 1881 Sébah & Jouaillier photograph reproduced