Important Works from the Najd Collection, Part II
Important Works from the Najd Collection, Part II
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June 11, 01:18 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
RUDOLF WEISSE
Austrian
b. 1859
OUTSIDE A COFFEE HOUSE
signed and inscribed R. Weisse / Paris lower left
oil on canvas
46 by 61cm., 18 by 24in.
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Sale: Doyle's, New York, 19 May 1983, lot 25
Mathaf Gallery, London
Purchased from the above
Caroline Juler, Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings, London, 1991, p. 228, cited, p. 230, catalogued & illustrated
London, Mathaf Gallery, Spring Exhibition, Important Orientalist Paintings of the 19th Century, 1984, illustrated in the catalogue
Coffee houses were a popular meeting and social space in Northern Africa in which all classes could mix freely. Indigenous to the Horn of Africa, coffee emerged as a popular drink to be traded and enjoyed in the fifteenth century. By the nineteenth century, Cairo had grown into the most important point of distribution for Yemenite coffee.
Capturing an everyday scene outside a Cairo coffee house, the present example depicts two young girls selling oranges to passers-by, while a group of men, absorbed in a board game, each contemplate their next move.
