Important Works from the Najd Collection, Part II
Important Works from the Najd Collection, Part II
PHILIPPE PAVY | THE ORANGE SELLER
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June 11, 01:33 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
PHILIPPE PAVY
French
active 1877-1887
THE ORANGE SELLER
signed and dated PH. PAVY / 1887 lower left
oil on canvas
44 by 55cm., 17¼ by 21½in.
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G. Johnson (sale: Sotheby's, London, 5 October 1983, lot 193)
Mathaf Gallery, London (purchased at the above sale)
Purchased from the above
Caroline Juler, Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings, London, 1991, pp. 203-04, catalogued & illustrated
Lynne Thornton, La Femme dans la Peinture Orientaliste, Courbevoie, 1993, p. 152, catalogued & illustrated
In the 1870s and 1880s Philippe Pavy travelled to Spain, North Africa, and Egypt with his brother Eugène Pavy, also an artist. His Orientalist works, which record local life, were met with critical acclaim in England, where Pavy exhibited both at the Royal Society of British Artists and at the Royal Academy in London.