Important Works from the Najd Collection, Part II
Important Works from the Najd Collection, Part II
LUDWIG DEUTSCH | A COUNCIL OF ELDERS
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June 11, 01:20 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
LUDWIG DEUTSCH
Austrian
1855-1935
A COUNCIL OF ELDERS
signed L. Deutsch upper left
oil on panel
19 by 24cm., 7½ by 9½in.
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Sale: Sotheby's, London, 19 March 1980, lot 74
Macconnal Mason & Son, London (purchased at the above sale)
Mathaf Gallery, London
Purchased from the above
Caroline Juler, Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings, London, 1991, p. 37, catalogued & illustrated, p. 41, cited
This painting is a version of a composition Deutsch painted several times: eight men of different ages and from different regions - some from the north of Egypt, others from Nubia or Sudan - who are gathered in a circle outside a coffee shop in Cairo. Pipes in hand, they listen as a member of their group reads them an important message or edict, while a large pot of freshly brewed coffee stands at the ready on a stove in the window.