Tag: ALGERIA
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21 Works, October 24rd. is Eugène Fromentin’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #226
Exhibited to great acclaim at the Paris Salon of 1864, Windstorm on the Esparto Plains of the Sahara remains one of the most enduring and striking compositions in all Orientalist art. The five riders and their mounts are depicted near Laghouat on the fringe of the Sahara in Algeria, although the precise setting could hardly…
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Léon Cauvy, MARKET IN ALGERIA 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #52
Léon Cauvy (12 January 1874, Montpellier – 3 January 1933, Algiers) was a French Orientalist painter. He began his studies in 1890 at the local School of Fine Arts; winning several awards for his sketches and ink wash paintings, although his interests soon turned to decorative work. Later, he went to Paris and spent some…
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Frederick Arthur Bridgman, STREET IN ALGERIA 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 66
Street in Algeria amply demonstrates Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s first-hand knowledge of North African life, and the proto-cinematic, highly finished compositions he painted at the height of his career. The work conveys a mood of quiet contemplation, as a rider takes a refreshing drink while conversing in the street, the woman next to him wearing a…
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