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.
19 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.
Signed lower left: "G. Bauernfeind"
Copyright The Artist
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.