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The Orientalist Sale

30 April 2019 | 12:30 PM BST | London

SALE TOTAL

5,367,500GBP
Browse Lots
  • 26
    Jean-Léon Gérôme
    Rider and his Steed in the Desert
    LOT SOLD.1,155,000GBP
  • 22
    Jean-Léon Gérôme
    Evening Prayer, Cairo
    LOT SOLD.735,000GBP
  • 54
    Auguste Veillon
    Halt in the Desert
    LOT SOLD.312,500GBP
  • 19
    Carl Haag
    The Holy Rock, Jerusalem
    LOT SOLD.275,000GBP
  • 59
    Carl Saltzmann
    Leander's Tower and the Old City Beyond, Constantinople
    LOT SOLD.275,000GBP
  • 24
    Frederick Arthur Bridgman
    Street in Algeria
    LOT SOLD.250,000GBP
  • 56
    Josef von Brandt
    A Prize Thoroughbred
    LOT SOLD.225,000GBP
  • 45
    Jacques Majorelle
    Aouache in Anemiter
    LOT SOLD.137,500GBP
  • 18
    Carl Haag
    The Ruins of the Temple of the Sun, Palmyra
    LOT SOLD.137,500GBP
  • 30
    Jean-Léon Gérôme
    Prayer in the Desert
    LOT SOLD.125,000GBP
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Sale Number: L19100 Lots : 77

SALE TOTAL

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Overview

How Algeria Captured the Imagination of American Artist Frederick Arthur Bridgman

Gérôme’s Cinematic Vision of the North African Desert

RESULTS

The Orientalist Sale brought a total of £5,367,500 and was led by Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Rider and His Steed in the Desert. The painting, which last changed hands when it was sold by the Fine Art Society in 1980, achieved £1,155,000. Evening Prayer, Cairo, also by Gérôme, commanded the second highest price of the sale when it sold for £735,000.

The sale opened with a superb and rare group of watercolours by David Roberts, which had remained in the same distinguished private collection since they were acquired in the 1970s and 1980s. Together, the 13 works brought a total of £560,625 exceeding the pre-sale high estimate for the group (£350,000-533,000).

Four new artist records were set, for Auguste Veillon (Halt in the Desert, sold for £312,500); Carl Haag (The Holy Rock, Jerusalem, sold for £275,000); Carl Saltzmann (Leander's Tower and the Old City Beyond, Constantinople, sold for £275,000), and Enrico Tarenghi (The Entertainers, sold for £118,750).

OVERVIEW

This year’s Orientalist Sale is among the most representative to date in terms of the range of artists, and subjects depicted. The sale is led by two rare and important oils by Jean-Léon Gérôme: Rider and his Steed in the Desert, and Evening Prayer, Cairo.

An important group of watercolours by David Roberts from a distinguished private collection includes views of Tangiers, Cairo, Suez, Petra, Jerusalem and Agra, as well as of the great Egyptian temples of Abu Simbel and Philae. A trio of watercolours by Carl Haag depicts the rarely painted Muslim shrine of the Dome of the Rock in the old city of Jerusalem, while another watercolour by Haag, executed on a grand scale, provides a unique historical record of the Temple of the Sun at Palmyra.

Along with paintings by Ben Marshall, Fredrick Arthur Bridgman, Léon Belly, Raphael von Ambros, Jacques Majorelle, to name just a few, and sculptures including by Pietro Calvi and Charles Cordier, the sale offers fascinating insights into the topographies, people, cultures, and customs of Turkey, the Levant, Egypt, North Africa and the wider Islamic world.

How Algeria Captured the Imagination of American Artist Frederick Arthur Bridgman

Gérôme’s Cinematic Vision of the North African Desert

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Director
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