The Orientalist Sale including Works from the Najd Collection
The Orientalist Sale including Works from the Najd Collection
Property from a Distinguished American Collection
Edward Lear
The Pyramids Road, Gizeh
Lot Closed
March 30, 12:25 PM GMT
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished American Collection
Edward Lear
British
1812 - 1888
The Pyramids Road, Gizeh
signed with monogram and dated 1873 lower left
oil on canvas
Unframed: 53 by 104cm., 21 by 41in.
Framed: 71 by 121.5cm., 28 by 47¾in.
Commissioned by Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl Northbrook before 1872; thence to Nina, Countess Northbrook (sale: Christie's, London, 5 October 1951, lot 129 bought 'Spencer')
The Fine Art Society, London
Private collection, UK (purchased from the above; sale: Sotheby's, London, 8 June 1993, lot 4)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
The Fine Art Society, London
Private collection, UK (purchased from the above; sale: Sotheby's, London, 8 June 1993, lot 4)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Lady Strachey (ed.), Letters of Edward Lear, 1907, p. 318, nos. 272 or 273
Briony Llewellyn, entry in Edward Lear, 1812-88, catalogue for the exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, 1985, p. 154, illustrated p. 39
Gerard-Georges Lemaire, Orientalism: The Orient in Western Art, Paris, 2000, p. 135, mentioned
Nicholas Tromans (ed.), The Lure of the East catalogue for the exhibition at Yale Centre for British Art in New Haven, Tate Britain in London, Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation Prera Museum in Istanbul and Sharjah Art Museum, 2008-2009, illustrated p. 106, fig. 88
Briony Llewellyn, entry in Edward Lear, 1812-88, catalogue for the exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, 1985, p. 154, illustrated p. 39
Gerard-Georges Lemaire, Orientalism: The Orient in Western Art, Paris, 2000, p. 135, mentioned
Nicholas Tromans (ed.), The Lure of the East catalogue for the exhibition at Yale Centre for British Art in New Haven, Tate Britain in London, Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation Prera Museum in Istanbul and Sharjah Art Museum, 2008-2009, illustrated p. 106, fig. 88