Tag: Cairo
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Chant Avedissian’s Leyla Fawzy, with Footnotes. #186
Sold for GBP 6,300 in Nov 2022 Laila Fawzi (E1923 – January 12, 2005) was an Egyptian actress and model. She was one of the pioneers of Egyptian cinema and starred in over 85 films throughout her career. In 1940, she was crowned Miss Egypt. Fawzi was born in Turkey to Egyptian parents. Her father owned fabric stores…
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01 Work, Jan Sluijters Junior’s Cairo Market in Centrum , with footnotes
Estimated for Estimate $2,700-$3,400 in Jun 2023 Traffic congestion is a serious problem in Cairo with large and adverse effects on both the quality of life and the economy. In addition to the time wasted standing still in traffic, time that could be put to more productive uses, congestion results in unnecessary fuel consumption, causes additional…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists. Prosper Marilhat’s Ezbekiyah Street in Cairo, with footnotes, #92
Azbakeya is one of the central districts of Cairo, Egypt. It contains many historically important establishments. One of these is the Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, which was inaugurated by Pope Mark VIII in 1800 and served as the seat of the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria from 1800 to 1971. Azbakeya was…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets), with footnotes, #118
While two mercenaries cast bullets and a third, seated behind them, seems to be inspecting one, others engage in revelry and a man and woman converse. Despite these apparent incongruities, the meticulous painting technique renders the scene convincing. Gérôme traveled to Egypt many times from 1855 onward. His recollections of these journeys, together with objects…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Georg Macco’s Bab Zuwayla, Cairo, with footnotes, #118
In the present painting the stand of the orange seller is placed just outside the Bab Zuwayla, the Southern Gate of Cairo’s Fatimid enclosure. Looking in through the archway, on the right one can see the Sabil-Kuttab of Nafisa Bayda (1796). On the left, there is an indistinct rendering of the facade of the Mosque-Mausoleum…
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22 Works, Today, June 14th. is John Frederick Lewis’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #162
Leaving Rome early in 1840, Lewis travelled to Constantinople, seeing Albania, Corfu, Athens and Smyrna en route. He spent the best part of a year in the Levant, but in November 1841, at the age of thirty-six, he sailed for Egypt. John Frederick Lewis RA (London 14 July 1804–15 August 1876) was a British Orientalist…
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Raphael von Ambros, TOBACCO SELLER, CAIRO 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 68
Von Ambros depicts a busy tobacco stall outside a coffee shop in the streets of Cairo. On the left, two young men roll cigarettes which have been neatly hung by the merchant on his stall. On the right, a customer samples a cigarette, pondering a purchase. Above the stall on a shelf stand five glass…
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Kamel Moustafa, Cairo Street Scene 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2a
Kamel Moustafa, (Egypt, 1917-1982) Cairo Street Scene oil on board, signed lower left 48 x 49cm (18 7/8 x 19 5/16in) Private collection Although this work is undated it has been suggested that it was executed in the early 1950s. Kamel Moustafa belongs to the second generation of Modern Egyptian artists who sit between the Pioneers…
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Raphael von Ambros, THE BAKER’S SHOP, CAIRO 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 36
Raphael von Ambros, 1845-1895, AUSTRIAN THE BAKER’S SHOP, CAIRO, c. 1889 Oil on panel 38.5 by 47cm., 15¼ by 18½in. Private collection Von Ambros established his reputation as a masterful observer of scenes of everyday life in Cairo, painted with the greatest attention to verisimilitude and detail. Here, a woman wearing a black niqāb and…
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Raphael von Ambros, MERCHANT BEFORE THE SABIL OF NAFISA AL-BAYDA, CAIRO 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 20
Raphael von Ambros, 1845-1895, AUSTRIAN MERCHANT BEFORE THE SABIL OF NAFISA AL-BAYDA, CAIRO Oil on panel 46 by 31cm., 18 by 12¼in. Private collection This Ottoman building built by Nafisa al-Bayda dates back to the year of 1796 AD. Nafisa al-Bayda began her life as a slave and then was married in the mid 1700s to a man…
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Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1847 – 1928, AMERICAN Almeh Flirting With An Armenian Policeman in Cairo 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 18 – With Footnotes
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1847 – 1928, AMERICAN Almeh Flirting With An Armenian Policeman in Cairo Oil on canvas 55.5 cm (21.85 in.), Width: 46 cm (18.11 in.) Private collection Almeh (Egyptian Arabic) was the name of a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily,…
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01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 19
Charles Wilda, 1854 – 1907, GERMAN A SOUK IN CAIRO, c. 1887 Oil on panel 63 by 47cm., 25 by 18½in. Private collection Open air markets in Old Cairo are called a “souk” in Arabic. You’ll find these types of markets in all Middle Eastern countries. The tradition of buying and selling, haggling and bargaining among the crowds…
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