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10. The Prayer Time at The MOSQUE of TOLEDO

Artist: Clement PUJOL de GUSTAVINO, Spanish, (1859 - 1905)
Execution date (approximate): 1891
Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (signed lower right)
Measures: 90 x 60 cm.
Description: The prayer at the mosque of Toledo-Spain. The Faithful gathering at prayer
time; Pujol depicting the magnificent architecture of the interior of the Mosque of Toledo.

Exhibitions
De Delacroix A Kandinsky; L’orientalisme En Europe.
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 15.10.2010 - 09.01.2011.
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München 28.01.2011 - 01.05.2011.
Musées des Beaux-Arts de Marseilles, 27.05.2011 - 28.08.2011.
(Reunion des Musées Nationaux de France, rmn)

Publications
• L’Orientalisme En Europe, De Delacroix A Kandinsky, p. 309.

Biography
Pujol de Gustavino was a Spanish painter of compositions and persons, a portraitist, an
aquarellist, a designer, a sculpture creator and Orientalist. He studied in Barcelona and
decided to stay in Paris. He is known to be a part of the Spanish painters of the School
of Paris. He was a student of Nicolas Luis Cabat and then of Jean Léon Gérome.
He also studied at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he met Raimundo de Madrazo
and Léon Bonnat. He exhibited at the Salon de Paris, and received the Medal of Honor
of the Exposition Universelle of 1889 for an Orientalist Painting. He was a collector of
antiques and one can see many of them in his paintings. His paintings were sold mainly
in England and in America.

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