The Orientalist Sale
The Orientalist Sale
Property from an Important Private Collection
Lot Closed
April 7, 01:46 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
LUCIEN LÉVY-DHURMER
French
1865 - 1953
LES ROSES D’ISPAHAN
signed Lévy-Dhurmer lower right; signed and titled on the reverse
oil on canvas
160 by 210cm., 63 by 83in.
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Estate of Marcel and Liliane Pollack (sale: Sotheby's, New York, 1 November 1995, lot 232)
Matthiesen Gallery, London
Joey and Toby Tanenbaum, Toronto (sale: Sotheby’s, New York, 23 October 1997, lot 177)
Purchased at the above sale
Geneviève Lacambre, 'Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer 1865-1953', in La Revue du Louvre, no. 1, Paris, 1973, p. 33, cited
Paris, Salon de la Société Nationale, 1909, no. 767
Brussels, Galerie des artistes français, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, 1928
The present work is an exceptional example of Lucien Levy-Dhurmer’s ability to transport the viewer into an imaginary journey of the senses. Partly obscured by a rose bush (Isfahan is in fact the name of a Damask rose originally from the Middle East) stands the Persian city of Ispahan. The title is taken from the poem by Charles Leconte de Lisle, which was famously set to music by Gabriel Fauré in 1884.
Lévy-Dhurmer also painted a smaller version of the present work in oils (measuring 60 by 81cm.), and a third in pastel measuring 48.5 by 63.5cm., which was sold in these rooms in 2016.
