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Lot 386

Anna Morstadt, Austrian 1874-1946-  Men on horseback wearing Middle Eastern dress;  oil on...

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Lot 386

Anna Morstadt, 
Austrian 1874-1946- 
Men on horseback wearing Middle Eastern dress; 
oil on...

Starting Bid: £550

Estimate: £800 - £1,200

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Lot 386

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Anna Morstadt, 
Austrian 1874-1946- 

Men on horseback wearing Middle Eastern dress; 

oil on canvas, signed 'MORSTADT', dated '1916', and inscribed in Arabic (lower left), 50.2 x 61.2 cm. 

Provenance: 
Private Collection. 

Note: 
This work is a characteristic example of Morstadt's colourful Orientalist scenes, with the artist returning to the subject matter of elaborately dressed horsemen on a number of occasions, including in an almost identical composition which sold at Claude Aguttes in Paris on 17 October 2010, lot 52 (€4,300 hammer), or in another similar work which sold at Tajan, Paris, on 14 November 2000, lot 187 (£11,817 hammer). 

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