Lot 25: EMILE EISMAN SEMENOVSKY, 1857-1911

EASTERN BEAUTY

EASTERN BEAUTY

87 by 27cm., 34¼ by 10½in.

signed in Latin l.r. and inscribed Paris

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

Sotheby's, 16^th February 1979, lot 137

NOTE

Polish born Eisman Semenovsky worked in Paris in the 1880s. The elongated format of this finely painted portrait, combined with the distinct planes of foreground and background recalls the japonisme and in particular the Japanese woodcuts which influenced 19^th century Parisian salon painting at the time.