19th-Century European Paintings & Works of Art, Featuring An Independent Eye: Property from Jack Kilgore & Co. (Lots 11-47)
19th-Century European Paintings & Works of Art, Featuring An Independent Eye: Property from Jack Kilgore & Co. (Lots 11-47)
PROPERTY FROM THE JAZAIRY COLLECTION
A Turkish Sign of Love
Auction Closed
May 22, 09:00 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Moritz Oppenheim
German 1800 - 1882
A Turkish Sign of Love
signed and dated lower right: MOPPENHEIM / 1841
oil on canvas
canvas: 24 ¾ by 18 ½ in.; 63 by 47 cm
framed: 28 ¼ by 23 ¼ in.; 71.5 by 59 cm
Sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, 9 November 2020, lot 570
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Georg Heuberger and Anton Merk, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim: Die Entdeckung des jüdischen Selbstbewußtseins in der Kunst, catalogue raisonné, Frankfurt, 1999, no. 46 (as A Turkish Sign of Love)
On a roof terrace, which offers a view over an oriental city in the evening light, a man sits cross-legged. His clothes, the carpets and the brass-coloured water pipe evoke an atmosphere of subtle luxury.
On closer inspection, action unfolds, in the upper right-hand corner a delicate hand appears behind a curtain. It seems to have just dropped the rose that lies in the foreground. Following this ‘sign of love’, the protagonist turns upwards and makes eye contact. His classic profile, full beard and deep black eyelashes attract the viewer’s attention and form the centre of the composition. Carved into the stone lintel above the door is the Arabic word القرآن meaning The Qur'an.
We are grateful to Erik Riedel, Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main, for his scientific assistance with cataloguing the present lot.
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