Frederick Arthur BRIDGMAN (1847- 1928) - Lot 130

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200000 - 300000 EUR
Frederick Arthur BRIDGMAN (1847- 1928) - Lot 130
Frederick Arthur BRIDGMAN (1847- 1928) Market in the fondouk of Laghouat Oil on canvas, signed lower right. 102 x 135 cm Provenance: Sale Hotel Drouot, Etude Gridel et Boscher (Room 10 on June 27, 1979). Acquired at this sale by the present owner. With Weeks, Bridgman is the most important painter of the American Orientalist school. Originally from a Boston family, he studied painting at the American colony of Pont-Aven and in the studio of Gérôme, of whom he was a favorite student. Fascinated by the Orient, he was a painter, writer (publication of Winters in Algiers, 1890, with illustrations of his paintings) and photographer of his travels. He rents with difficulty a room-studio in the home of a young widow in the Kasbah of Algiers. From his terrace, he painted courtyards and fountains, alleys and squares, an irreplaceable testimony to Algiers at the turn of the 20th century. Frederick Arthur Bridgman was born in Alabama from a northern family. He studied at the Brooklin's school of Fine Arts. In 1866, he travels to France and enters Gerome's studio. He starts travelling in the Orient in1872, and Algeria will become his home. This painting belongs to 1920's large compositions. It represents a caravanserail where the travelers stop to rest, refresh, get food and water. The colors are bright and Bridgman is there at the climax of his art.
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