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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 9, 2015 | Heritage Auctions | Dallas | European Art Signature Auction | 66030 | $****** - ****** | Kief sur la route de Kerrassunde à Amassia (Asie-Mineure) |
paintings
35.6 x 59.7 cm (14 x 23.5 in)
oil on canvas
Lieutenant Colonel Felix and Marguerite McDavid of Orleans, France
Estate of the above
By descent to the present owner. A four-year sojourn in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) secured Fabius Brest's reputation as a preeminent Orientalist painter during the second half of the nineteenth century. Encouraged by his teacher in Marseille, Emile Loubon, who himself traveled to Palestine, Brest lived and painted in Constantinople, the surrounding countryside, and the Black Sea coast. His beautifully composed landscapes record exquisite mosques, houses of the Golden Horn and Trebizond, and activities along the banks of the Bosphorus--all usually set against a ravishing blue sky that became something of a trademark for the artist. The wealth of impressions and mysterious charm of the sites he visited continued to inspire his work for the rest of his career, notably in many of his ambitious Salon submissions throughout the 1860s and 1870s.This landscape with its bright red pavilion to the right belongs to a special series of kief paintings Brest produced as the result of his stay in Turkey. The Arabic word kief means having a sense of well-being or drowsy pleasure, and in Brest's paintings takes the form of groups of men relaxing in town or in country caf_�s. Kief also has associations with smoking a narcotic such as hemp leaves, which produces the sensation of contentment. The pavilion structures that figure prominently in Brest's kief paintings were spots where travelers could also doubtless enjoy a pleasurable smoke in addition to relaxing conversation. The present work is a smaller-scale preliminary version of Brest's monumental Kief sur la route de Kerrassunde _� Amassia (Asie-Mineure), painted in 1863 and exhibited that same year at the Paris Salon, and subsequently at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition. (1) The composition, staffage, and fine details are quite close to the final version with the exception of a more developed distant landscape including a body of water, a shoreline, remote purple mountains and a white bank of clouds in the latter.(1) The Salon submission surfaced at Sotheby's, London, June 14, 2005, lot 90, and measured 39.76 x 65.75 in.
