THE MARKET SQUARE (MARKETPLACE IN NORTH AFRICA)
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
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- THE MARKET SQUARE (MARKETPLACE IN NORTH AFRICA)
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
oil on canvas
31 by 38 3/4 in.
78.7 by 98.5cm
LOT SOLD. 33,000 USD in 2004
LOT SOLD. 79,250 GBP in 2009
Nubian donkeys had been bred and used in Egypt and North Africa since ancient times and were an integral part of street life. Bridgman, like his teacher Jean-Léon Gérôme, was captivated by their striking white colouring and proud bearing compared to European breeds. Works such as the present one amply demonstrate Bridgman's skill at rendering animals, which he perfected while working in Gérôme's studio. Camels, horses, greyhounds, and Indian elephants are central to Bridgman's oeuvre, setting him apart as one of the most accomplished animalier painters of the nineteenth century.
Bridgman's first taste of the 'Orient' came in 1872 when he moved from Paris to the Pyrenées and came into contact with the bright Mediterranean light and Moorish heritage of Spain. He also befriended the painter Mariano Fortuny, whose bright, sensuous palette had a profound influence on the young American and led to the lightening of his own palette. From Spain, it was only a short journey across the Straits of Gibraltar into North Africa. During the autumn of 1872 he travelled through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, which would have a lasting hold on his imagination and form the setting for almost his entire subsequent output.
PROVENANCE
Palm Springs Desert Museum (gifted in 1983)
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, May 24, 2001, lot 162, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale
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- YOUNG WOMAN ON A TERRACE JEUNE FEMME SUR UNE TERRASSE
- YOUNG WOMAN FROM CONSTANTINOPLE
- YOUNG ORIENTAL WOMAN ON A TERRACE
- YOUNG NICOISE WITH A BASKET
- WOMEN WASHING CLOTHES IN A STREAM
- WOMAN ON A BALCONY ALGIERS
- WATER CARRIERS BY THE NILE
- UN CIRQUE EN PROVINCE THE AMERICAN CIRCUS IN FRANCE
- TWO HORSEMEN IN ALGIERS
- TREE TRUNK
- THE YOUNG SCRIBE
- THE WATER CARRIER
- THE STREAM AT DIVONNE
- THE SEWING LESSON
- THE PRAYER
- THE CHESS PLAYERS
- THE BARBER
- SOIR DETE
- SIROCCO OVER THE DESERT
- RETURN FROM THE HUNT
- REFLECTIONS
- PORTRAIT OF WALTER SIDNEY BAKER
- PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN JEUNE ORIENTALE
- PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN
- PORTRAIT OF A MAN
- PENSIVE MOMENTS
- ON THE TERRACE (2)
- MARKET SCENE
- LE JOUR DU PROPHETE A BLIDAH EN ALGERIE
- LAWN TENNIS CLUB
- LA FeTE DES BOIS LES BACCHANTES
- LA CIGALE
- IN THE SOUK TUNIS
- IN THE HAREM
- IN THE COURTYARD (2)
- IDLE MOMENTS
- HORSEMEN IN ALGIERS
- HORSEMAN IN A COURTYARD
- HALT IN THE DESERT
- GARDEN IN BLOSSOM
- DANS UNE VILLE DE CAMPAGNE ALGER
- DANS LE SOUK ALGER
- CHEVAL A LA FONTAINE
- BY THE CITY GATE
- BARBARY HORSES AT CAIRO
- AT THE WATERs EDGE
- AT THE FOUNTAIN ALGIERS
- AT REST OUTSIDE THE CITY WALLS
- AT REST ALGERIA
- ARAB WOMEN ON A ROOFTOP ALGIERS BEYOND
- ARAB CHILDREN PLAYING CARDS
- APRES LA FETE PORT D ALGER
- AN EGYPTIAN PROCESSION (2)
- AN AFTERNOONS AMUSEMENT
- ALGER MAREH
- A TURKISH BEAUTY
- A MOUNTED CAVALRYMAN
- A NORTH AFRICAN COURTYARD
- A CONSTANTINOPLE BEAUTY
- A COFFEE HOUSE ALGERIA
- A STREET SCENE IN ALGERIA
- On The Coast Of Kabylie
- Aicha a Woman of Morocco
- The Orange Seller
- LIndolence
- On the Terrace
- The First Steps
- Spanish Lady
- AT THE OASIS
- Queen of the Brigands
- Cleopatras Barge
- The Reading Lesson
- ALMEH FLIRTING WITH AN ARMENIAN POLICEMAN CAIRO
- PHARAOH AND HIS ARMY ENGULFED BY THE RED SEA
- A Coastal Trail
- Pharaoh Army Engulfed By The Red Sea detail
- An Eastern Veranda
- An Arab Village
- Idle Moments An Arab Courtyard detail
- Funerailles DUne Momie
- Idle Moments An Arab Courtyard
- Procession in Honor of Isis
- Near The Kasbah
- The Return
- Scene in Morocco
- The Bathing Cove
- The Diversion of an Assyrian King
- Harem Girl
- Women Drawing Water From The Nile
- Women At The Cemetery Algiers
- River Landscape with Deer
- The Bathing Beauties
- An Egyptian Procession
- Orientalist Interior
- La Jeune mauresque Campagne DAlgiers
- The Game of Chance
- Reclining By A Stream
- The Procession of the Sacred Bull Anubis
- The Falcon Hunt
- Arab Women at the Town Wall
- Dolce Far Niente
- An Interesting Game
- Mother and Child
- The Messenger
- In the Courtyard
- Apollon Enlevant Cyrene
- Leading the Horse from Stable
- Cleopatra on the terraces of Philae 1896
- An Eastern Courtyard
- The Siesta
- In a Village El Biar Algeria
- THE MARKET SQUARE (MARKETPLACE IN NORTH AFRICA)
- The Laborer
- Design For The Decoration Of An Aeolian Harp
- The Harem Boats
- Study Of An Arab And An Arnaut Chief
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