Precursor of Impressionism orientalist obedience especially famous and sought after for his views of Venice and the Bosphorus.
A century after his death, continues to fascinate Felix Ziem and grow as surely auction the fish at the dawn of Christianity to the point that some have "a Ziem 'is acquiring the fragment of a" success story "; resulting in reverse disrepute, but existing marginal, part of the public wishing to assign the artist in a series of postcards on the pretext that he would, subject to strong demand, many product.
This study is the opportunity to retoquer some shots. Ziem, before painting Elsewhere in exotic finery definitely attractive, is the result of interbreeding; son of a Polish immigrant of Armenian origin and a Burgundian. And in this, he personifies a first form of exoticism which is still willful and shaped by an own pictorial research. Appraised by the hand of Ziem and certified by Felix Ziem Association (the certificate will be provided to the purchaser) with three mentions dry timbre of his studio and numbered 487 when the front and to the back three times work - including one handwritten.
Oil on cardboard.
Dimensions: Framed 35 x 28 cm for 24.5 cm x 17.2 cm
old frame gilt wood with some wear but nice group.
Full entry on the site of the WE ART TOGETHER Gallery here