Osman Hamdi Bey Painting Sells for £3.7M at Bonhams 19th Century Art Sale
Osman Hamdi Bey’s 'Cami Kapisinda (At the Mosque Door)' sold for £3,678,400 at Bonhams London on March 25, exceeding its high estimate of £3,000,000. The work, which had been held by the University of Pennsylvania since 1895, led a 72-lot auction that realized a total of £6,326,238. Other notable results included William Adolphe Bouguereau’s 'Fardeau agréable', which fetched £508,400, and Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret’s 'La Vaccination', which sold for £368,700.
- Artists: Osman Hamdi Bey, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, William Dyce, Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
- People: Charles O'Brien, Hermann Hilprecht
- Auction Houses: Bonhams
- Museums: University of Pennsylvania, Istanbul Archaeological Museum, Istanbul Museum of Fine Arts
- Locations: London, New Bond Street, Istanbul, Berlin
- Prices: £3,678,400, £6,326,238, £508,400, £368,700, £267,100, £254,400
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