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| This painting was sold by Sotheby's in their 1998 sale 19th & 20th Century Pictures5 November, London. I cannot find a better reproduction of it on the internet, we do not see the signature, I would love to have a high resolution example of this, perhaps there is a picture of it in Christie's catalogue? |
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This painting can be found in LES COLLECTIONS DU MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS DE NICE. The painting was given to the museum a few years after the death of Tanoux by his sister (1927). Cette toile s'inspire du roman intitulé Thaïs d'Anatole France et présente l'ascète Athanaël s'apprêtant à convertir Thaïs, une courtisane d'Alexandrie. Tant les personnages que le décor relèvent d'un Orient imaginaire, révélant maintes beautés exotiques. Rien n'a été oublié : ni les formes rubeniennes de Thaïs, ni l'incroyable mélange des genres du décor sensé faire couleur locale. Le peintre a, pour ce faire, notamment emprunté des éléments à l'art des pharaons, au Maghreb et à la Grèce. |
| I discovered this painting by Tanoux by accident searching "Tanoux 1892" with google where it can be found on www.gixcel.com. I have not framed it as it stands better on its own as a work of pure art, is this what Tanoux really wanted to paint, reality? If you zoom in on the high resolution image at Gixcel, you can see that Tanoux has even included a detail of a tear in this womans shirt where she has stiched it back together. |
| This painting sold for $25.000 USD at the Sotheby's 2009 auction, 19th Century European Art including Importnat British Paintings, New York, 22/10/2009. Lot 130. The auction detail states: signed in the lower left however we do not see it in their photo, nor is it dated. This is the kind of Orientalist painting that was very popular and we can perhaps speculate about the "reality" of this scene, while there is no doubt about the reality of "The Washer", "harem Beauty" may not be based on reality per se,... one wonders how we might handle the situation, if thrown by some magical circumstance into this room. Here then is the bread and butter of Tanoux. At the top of the page I was speculating on where or not "Taking Tea" was a snapshot of the home of Tanoux and now in retrospect i can imagine it is rather the home of a typical Tanoux client searching yet another Orientalist piece to add to his collection and decor. |
| This painting sold for $23.750 USD at the Sotheby's 2007 auction, 19th Century European Art , New York, 23/10/2007. Lot 186 |
| This painting is listed in the archives of Düsseldorfer Auktionshaus as sold at auction for 67.000 EUROS |
| I found this painting for sale on a Russian site for about 18.000 USD which seems an impossibly low price, not speaking Russian doesn/t help. |
| This painting was sold in 1998 by Christie's for $2.298 USD in their IMPRESSIONIST AND 19TH CENTURY PICTURES auction, London, South Kensington, 2 December 1998, Lot 283/Sale 8221. This would have been a very good investment for the buyer, as I think that today it may sell for a lot more. |
| On the next page we will look at some of the more eccentric Orientalist paintings by Adrien Henri Tanoux... |