What struck me:There are more and more pieces with black people and “Moors” or “Turks”. The market is clearly changing. Hopefully a few museums will follow this tendency in the market. A number of works were sold, I heard
A few examples
Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant, Head of a Moor, ca 1875/ Oil on papier on canvas, 45 x 35 cmJan Davidsz de Heem, VanitasJohn Young ca 1813 (Shapiro rare books)
George French Angas, The Kafirs illustrated, London 1849
Victory and Fortune, Du Paquier manufacturay, Vienna, ca 1740 (Röbbig München)
Walter Winans, The Mermaid, 1905Jan Claudius de Cock, Portrait of a moor pageboy, Marble bust, cm 27 x 27
Charles-Henri Joseph Cordier Bust of Said Abdallah of the Mayac, Kingdom of Darfur, 1818
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Le marchand de Tortues a Venise, oil on canvas, 1854, 89 x 117,4 cmBritsh School circa 1800Leopold Carl Müller, A Study of an Egyptian Boy, ca 1881, oil on canvas 20,5 x 15 cm.
Willem van Herp, A Bordella Scene with Ladies arousing and drinking with their Client, oils on panel 45,5 x 37,5 cmAnton van Wouw, 1907
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