Property from the Najd Collection
GIUSEPPE AURELI | Idle Moments
Auction Closed
December 11, 03:18 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Najd Collection
GIUSEPPE AURELI
Italian
1858-1929
Idle Moments
signed and inscribed GAureli / Rome lower right
watercolour over pencil on paper
74 by 53cm., 29 by 20¾in.
Sale: Replica Shoes 's, London, 19 October 1978, lot 68
Private collection, Japan
Mathaf Gallery, London
Purchased from the above
London, Mathaf Gallery, Spring Exhibition, Important Orientalist Paintings of the 19th century, March 1984, no. 36, illustrated in the catalogue
Caroline Juler, Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings, London, 1991, p. 11, cited, p. 12, catalogued & illustrated
Lynne Thornton, Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting, 1994, p. 22, catalogued & illustrated