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ÉTIENNE DINET (1861-1929) Interior of a mosque. El Mihrab or…
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ÉTIENNE DINET (1861-1929) Interior of a mosque. El Mihrab or…
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Estimate €12,000 - €18,000
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Description
ÉTIENNE DINET (1861-1929)
Interior of a mosque. El Mihrab or the niche indicating the direction of the Mekka
Tempera on board
Signed lower right
32,5 x 24 cm - 13 ¾ x 9 ½ in.
Tempera on cardboard, signed lower right
Provenance :
Collection Frédéric Lung, France (old label on the back)
Henry Sorensen Collection, France
Private collection, France
Sale, Drawings, old and modern paintings [...], Art Valorem, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 9 December 2025, lot 97
Acquired during the previous sale
Bibliography:
Koudir Benchikou [catalogue raisonné by] and Denise Brahimi [monograph by], La vie et l'œuvre d'Étienne Dinet, Courbevoie: ACR Édition, 1984, described and reproduced under no. 434, p. 260
Sliman ben Ibrahim Baâmer, Étienne Dinet [illustrations by] and Mohamed Racim [decoration by], La Vie de Mohammed, Prophète d'Allah, Paris: H. Piazza, 1918, reproduced p. 57
Exhibition(s) :
Beaux-Arts, Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris, Paris, May-November 1931, n° unknown (part of Vie de Mahomet)
Book Fair, Paris, Palais Galliera, 1918, n° unknown
Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, 1914, no. 1356 (one of the "Huit cadres de miniatures. Intended for the illustration of 'La Vie de Mohammed, prophète d'Allah', by E. Dinet and Sliman ben Ibrahim Bâmer").
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