Sale 205 Lot 1294

CLEMENT PUJOL DE GUASTAVINO (Spanish / French, 1850 - 1905). Audience Before the Emir, Signed C. Pujol lower right. Oil on panel. Framed. - Sight: 30.5 x 38.5 inches; frame: 38.5 x 46 inches
Estimate $75,000-85,000

PROVENANCE
Sotheby's, 19th Century European Art Including The Orientalist
Sale, 18 April 2008, Lot 183


ARTIST PROFILE: Clement Pujol de Guastavino was active/lived in France, Spain. Clement Pujol de Guastavino is known for Orientalist figure and genre painting. Clemente Pujol began his artistic training studying at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, Spain. In 1871 he participated for the first time in the Fine Arts exhibitions organized in Barcelona, which he attended every year until 1876. At that time he decided to move to Paris to continue his artistic training under the guidance of Louis Nicolas Cabat, although he later trained under the guidance of the artist Leon Gérome, with whom he was introduced to the orientalist trend. That same year, 1876, he participated in the Paris Salon, although he continued to send many works to the exhibitions in Barcelona.