The Orientalist Sale
The Orientalist Sale
Property from an Important Private Collection
Lot Closed
April 7, 01:10 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
PAUL LEROY
French
1860 –1942
THE RÜSTEM PASHA MOSQUE IN CONSTANTINOPLE: A PAIR
both signed PAUL - LEROY lower right
both oil on canvas
each: 55.5 by 38cm., 22 by 15in. (2)
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The Rüstem Pasha mosque in Istanbul was designed by Sinan, master architect to Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent (1520-66). The mosque’s most striking feature is its extensive Iznik tiles, the focus of Leroy's paintings. The tiles adorn the walls, piers, mihrab (sacred niche), and minbar (pulpit) of the mosque's interior, in a dizzying pattern of stylised and more relaxed free-flowing floral and foliate designs.