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GUSTAV BAUERNFEIND, At the Door of the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus / La Porte de la Grande Mosquée à Damas, c. 1889–91

GUSTAV BAUERNFEIND

At the Door of the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus / La Porte de la Grande Mosquée à Damas, c. 1889–91
Watercolour on cardboard
50 x 38 cm
19 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.
Signed lower left: "G. Bauernfeind"
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Provenance

The Travel Sale, Sotheby’s London, October, 2003, Lot. 49;
Private Collection, Spain. 

Literature

Gustav Bauernfeind - Gemaelde Und Aquarelle: 5 (Monographien Zur Bildenden Kunst), Petra Versteegh-Kühner Frankfurt/M, 1995, p. 218).

Publications

Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts, John M. MacKenzie, Manchester University Press, 1995, p. 60;
Les Orientalistes peintres voyageurs, Lynne Thornton, ACR Edition, 2001, p. 198; 
Camillo Sitte: The Birth of Modern City Planning: With a Translation of the 1889 Austrian Edition of His City Planning According to Artistic Principles (Dover Architecture), Camillo Sitte and Christiane Crasemann Collins, p. 371.
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