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Emile Eisman Semenovsky, 1857-1911
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description
- Emile Eisman Semenovsky
- eastern beauty
- signed in Latin l.r. and inscribed Paris
- oil on panel
- 87 by 27cm., 34¼ by 10½in.
Provenance
Sotheby’s, 16th February 1979, lot 137
Catalogue Note
Polish born Eisman Semenovsky worked in Paris in the 1880s. The elongated format of this finely painted portrait, combined with the distinct planes of foreground and background recalls the japonisme and in particular the Japanese woodcuts which influenced 19th century Parisian salon painting at the time.