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Lot 20

Charles Wilda
(Austrian, 1854-1907)
The Palace Guard

20 October 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£20,000 - £30,000

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Charles Wilda (Austrian, 1854-1907)

The Palace Guard
signed, inscribed and dated 'CH.WILDA PARIS 1884' (lower right)
oil on panel
33 x 23.5cm (13 x 9 1/4in).

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Provenance
Private collection, USA.
Anon. sale, Bonhams, London, 2 March 2016, lot 59.
Private collection, UK (acquired at the above sale).

Born in Vienna, Charles Wilda studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where he was tutored by the Orientalist Leopold Carl Müller (Austrian 1834– 1892). Wilda exhibited in Vienna between 1887 and his death, in Vienna, in 1907.

The Vienna Academy of the 1870s and 1880s produced a prodigious group of Orientalist painters: among Wilda's contemporaries were Jean Discart (French 1856-1944), Rudolf Ernst (Austrian 1854-1932) and Ludwig Deutsch (Austrian 1855-1935). Like his contemporaries, Wilda was drawn to Paris, working there in the early 1880s. He also produced a group of works painted in Cairo in the 1890s.

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