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Otto Pilny (Budweis 1866-1936 Zürich) Le Caire, dromadaires dans le désert
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Otto Pilny (Budweis 1866-1936 Zürich) Le Caire, dromadaires dans le désert signé, située et daté 'Otto PILNY Cairo 1901' (en bas à droite) huile sur toile signed, inscribed and dated 'Otto PILNY Cairo 1901' (lower right) oil on canvas 73 x 92cm (28 3/4 x 36 1/4in). Footnotes: A product of Pilny's first Egyptian journey in 1889, the present painting reflects the artist's close engagement with the Austro-Hungarian Orientalist tradition. Under the influence of Vienna's leading Orientalist painters—Ludwig Deutsch, Rudolf Ernst, and Carl Leopold Müller—Pilny adopted the Egyptian landscape as a principal subject, drawn not only to its visual richness but to the atmospheric effects so prized by his contemporaries. In this composition, the vast stillness of the desert is broken by a caravan of dromedaries advancing toward Cairo's horizon. The rendering is both topographically attentive and bathed in a diffused, golden light that evokes the sensory intensity of North Africa. Pilny's travels in 1889 and again in 1892 provided direct access to the landscapes and people he depicted, but it is his command of tone and light that gives his Egyptian works their enduring poetic charge. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Otto Pilny (Budweis 1866-1936 Zürich) Le Caire, dromadaires dans le désert signé, située et daté 'Otto PILNY Cairo 1901' (en bas à droite) huile sur toile signed, inscribed and dated 'Otto PILNY Cairo 1901' (lower right) oil on canvas 73 x 92cm (28 3/4 x 36 1/4in). Footnotes: A product of Pilny's first Egyptian journey in 1889, the present painting reflects the artist's close engagement with the Austro-Hungarian Orientalist tradition. Under the influence of Vienna's leading Orientalist painters—Ludwig Deutsch, Rudolf Ernst, and Carl Leopold Müller—Pilny adopted the Egyptian landscape as a principal subject, drawn not only to its visual richness but to the atmospheric effects so prized by his contemporaries. In this composition, the vast stillness of the desert is broken by a caravan of dromedaries advancing toward Cairo's horizon. The rendering is both topographically attentive and bathed in a diffused, golden light that evokes the sensory intensity of North Africa. Pilny's travels in 1889 and again in 1892 provided direct access to the landscapes and people he depicted, but it is his command of tone and light that gives his Egyptian works their enduring poetic charge. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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