Lucien LÉVY-DHURMER (1865-1953) - Lot 465

Lucien LÉVY-DHURMER (1865-1953) Portrait of Madame Hamdi Bey Graphite and chalk highlights, signed lower right H. 60 cm - L. 43 cm (as seen) HVS Lucien Levy Dhurmer met Osman Hamdi Bey and his second wife (Marie) Naile in Paris or Istanbul during his trip to the Orient. Osman Hamdi Bey, son of Grand Vizier Ibrahim Edhem Pacha, studied painting with Gustave Boulanger and Jean Léon Gerôme, and went on to become the leader of oriental painting in 19th-century Turkey, founding the Istanbul School of Fine Arts and spearheading the transformation of the Imperial Museum into the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Our portrait is similar to the one in the Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, which is dated 1901 and dedicated