The Orientalist Sale including Works from the Najd Collection

The Orientalist Sale including Works from the Najd Collection

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Property from the Najd Collection

Frederick Arthur Bridgman

Towing on the Nile

Lot Closed

March 30, 12:15 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Najd Collection

Frederick Arthur Bridgman

American

1847 - 1928

Towing on the Nile


signed and dated F A Bridgman 1875 lower right

oil on canvas

Unframed: 90 by 151cm., 35½ by 59½in.

Framed: 135 by 197.5cm., 53 by 77¾in.


We would like to thank Dr. Ilene Susan Fort, Curator Emerita, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, for kindly confirming the authenticity of this work.

Sale: Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1983, lot 22 
Mathaf Gallery, London
Purchased from the above
Henry Blackburn, Academy Notes, London, 1877, p. 36 
H.C. Richardson, Academy Criticisms, London, 1877, p. 83, no. 344, listed
The Art Journal, London, 1877, p. 246 
The Athenaeum, London, 1877, p. 675
Caroline Juler, Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings, London, 1991, p. 27, cited, p. 26, catalogued & illustrated
Gerald M. Ackermann, American Orientalists, Paris, 1994, pp. 42-43, catalogued & illustrated
London, Royal Academy, 1877, no. 344