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| Keywords: The actual colors of the painting.jpg en The actual colors of the painting Source http //www christies com/LotFinder/search/LotDetail asp sid intObjectID 4305690 SE CMWCAT03+209854+1173394984+ QR M+1+45+Aqc0000900+180100++Aqc0000900+ entry india SU 1 RQ True AN 46 downloaded May 2004 Edwin Lord Weeks American 1849-1903 An open-air restaurant Lahore; signed and dated 'E L Weeks' lower right ; oil on canvas 62 x 96¾ in 157 5 x 245 7 cm Painted circa 1889 An open-air restaurant Lahore is one of Edwin Lord Weeks' most notable widely-exhibited canvases It is one of perhaps half a dozen monumentally-sized canvases and was executed in the artist's Paris studio circa 1889 about two years after his second expedition to India The end of the 1880s was a fertile period for the artist executing a number of his most important Indian paintings during that time The present painting was exhibited along with The hour of prayer at the Pearl Mosque Agra at the Paris Salon of 1889 where he was awarded a Gold Medal This painting depicts a restaurant stall in the marketplace situated in the open plaza in front of the Mosque of Vazir Khan in Lahore Weeks relates his impression of the scene in his expedition narrative ' There is in truth a good deal of life and movement to be seen from the crumbling steps of Vazir Kahn; there are two domed edifices which now shelter various trades beneath the rude thatched awnings projecting from their eaves and in the middle of the square there are open-air restaurants where great kettles of tinned copper stand upon platforms elevated above the ground and surrounded by rough benches; sooty frying-pans sizzle on little clay furnaces and the keepers of these restaurants sit enthroned among their cooking utensils In the middle of the day the benches are crowded with customers who have the appearance of being peasants from the outlying country A great deal of horse-shoeing and veterinary practice is carried on in one corner under a great tree ' Edwin Lord Weeks From the Black Sea Through Persia and India New York 1895 pp 187-180 Weeks executed a number of paintings and studies of the front as seen here and courtyard of the mosque of Vazir Khan In the present work the beautifully painted façade occupies a prominent part in the composition It is a testament to the artist's great talent that the accomplished handling of figures and architecture under the blazing Indian sunlight lends the composition a palpable presence whose unaffected capture of an observed moment belies its measured execution as a studio work The particular lack of contrivance of An open-air restaurant Lahore is the result of its direct connection to an in situ sketch Unlike many of his other major paintings which are built up from a series of architectural sketches combined with figure studies the present painting was developed from an 11½ x 19½ inch in situ sketch featuring all of the elements contained in the final monuemental composition Thus the final painting takes us directly back to Weeks' observation of an expedition scene in a complete and truthful sense; a tribute to his remarkable skill as a draftsman in the academic tradition 1889 http //www columbia edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1700_1799/trade/fastfood/fastfood html Edwin Lord Weeks American 1849-1903 PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Orientalist paintings Wazir Khan Mosque | ||||
