1936 - 1972
Canadien
The Mestaouis House, Tunis
tempera sur papier, circa 1956 - 1958
19 3/4 x 14 po, 50.2 x 35.6 cm
Estimation : 2 000 $ - 3 000 $ CAD
Vendu pour : 4 688 $
Exposition à : Heffel Toronto – 13 avenue Hazelton
PROVENANCE
Collection privée, Oakville
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Ann Davis, Somewhere Waiting: The Life and Art of Christiane Pflug, 1991, page 102
Veuillez noter le rapport d’état pour ce lot.
This work along with lot #627 are exceedingly rare works by Christiane Pflug which derive from the same private collection. This work is circa the artist’s time in Tunis between the years of 1956 and 1958. The subject - like so many other works by Pflug - is of an interior room looking outward to a courtyard. We believe it was painted at the Mestaouis house where she and her husband Michael rented a room while he completed a medical residency.
They chose the house because they both agreed it was an opportune place to paint. Christiane notes in a letter to her mother that, "we have found an old Arabian house which is only half inhabited. The people are very nice and allow me to paint in the empty rooms. So I go there in the mornings, the light is best then, and paint still lifes, they have very nice things there, small tea pots, an old copper coffee grinder, old pewter tea dishes and many clay things.”
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