LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gouache on paper, varnished, laid down on canvas

Size Notes:

with frame: 87 x 70.5 cm

Markings:

signed at left 'raqimihi al-haqir Isma'il al-musavvir al-k[atib] 12?'

Provenance:

Sotheby's London, 18 October 2001, lot 74; Collection of Count Jan Karszo-Siedlewski, former Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Iran, 1938-41; Count Karszo-Siedlewski was subsequently posted to London, where he must have had the picture put on to its current stretcher, for there is a label on the reverse of J.J.Patrickson, Framers, of 120 Fulham Road, South Kensington. According to the records of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, J.J. Patrickson were in business at this address from 1920-56