
Property of a Gentleman
Preparing coffee
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
Preparing coffee
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
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