LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

29.72 in. (75.50 cm.) (height) by 19.69 in. (50.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and indistinctly dated 86 upper right

Exhibited:

Munich, Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1886 (as The Smoker). Berlin, Internationale Kunstausstellung, Verein Berliner Künstler, 1891, no. 536 (as The Smoker). Athens, National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Jakobides Retrospective, November 2005 - January 2006

Literature:

Illustrierte Zeitung, July-December 1887, p. 668. Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, 1941, p. 607. Olga Metzafou-Polyzou, Dictionary of Greek Artists, vol 2, Athens, 1998, p. 36. Olga Metzafou-Polyzou, Jakobides, Athens, 1999, pp. 92-94, 339-340, no. 79, illustrated. Marina Lambraki-Plaka, National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum Calendar 2006, Georgios Jakobides (1853-1932) The Painter of Childhood, Athens, 2005, illustrated. Olga Metzafou-Polyzou, Jakobides Retrospective, Athens, 2005, pp. 50-51, 156-157 & 301, no. 45, illustrated.

Provenance:

Private Collection, Athens