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37. The Harem DANCERS

Artist: Ignacio Léon y ESCOSURA, Spanish, (1834 - 1901)
Execution date (approximate): 1885
Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (Signed lower right)
Measures: 48.5 x 33.5 cm.
Description: An entertainement in the Harem. The Harem Dancers; A girl dancing while
another is playing the Quanoun (an Arabic flat guitar), other the Harp, and another
smoking the Huka (water pipe).

Exhibitions
Austria, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems-Stein: 14.08.2005 - 13.11.2005. “Harem Des Orients.”
Bremen (Alemania), Übersee museum Bremen: 18.11.2006 - 30.07.2007. “1001 Nacht Wege
Ins Paradies”.

Publications
• Harem Des Orients, p.79.
• 1001 Nacht Wege Ins Paradies, p.10.

Biography
Spanish painter of genre, and Orientalism, very realistic. Studied in the fine art school
of La Coruña where he was a pupil of Juan Perez Villarmil, and later moved to Madrid to
finish school, in the high school of fine arts under Federico de Madrazo. From 1859 he lived
in Paris where he attended the imperial school as a student of M. Lazerges, and visited
often thr studios of Gérome and de Meissonier. He exhibited in Spain and abroad, and
obtained a Medal at the Exposition Universelle of London in 1874. He was Comendador of
the Order of Carlos III and Isabel the Catolic, and Artistic Deleguete of Spain during the
Universal Exhibition of Chicago in 1893. He participated to Fares in Berlin (1886), Universal
Exposition of Paris (1889), International Exposition of Madrid (1892), and of Munich in 1897.
His paintings had a great success in England.

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