After the Bath by R Lawrence-Manasfi (1988) Painting by L'Orientaliste
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Painting,
Watercolor
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Pencil
on Paper
- Dimensions Height 12in, Width 8in
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Oriental Art World Culture
Private Collection
Titled After the Bath
Signed R Lawrence
Realised in 1988
Dated by artist: 2004
20th century orientalist piece of art
After the bath is a small watercolour painting measuring 12 x 8 inches on paper, the scene was executed by artist R Lawrence aka known as R Manasfi in 1988 and forms part of a series of small watercolour paintings on papers that were realised in the 1980's.
The painting features a Middle East interior hammam quarter the decor surround in the room is decorated in typical vibrant Islamic tiles some of which seems to have fallen into disrepair, the scene features a man seated and relaxing in a beautiful yellowish amber gown after the bath. In the foreground is a typical orient red patterned rug placed over a tiled floor.
A similar and larger picture was sketched by the artist featuring the bath to the left side of the scene.
Hammans in brief:
Hammams were common in Arab countries and consisted of sunken tubs and marble platforms surrounded by glazed tiles in interior rooms without windows thus trapped heat and moisture from a Turkish steam bath. There were hammams for both men and women, some with separate baths for men and women whilst other had certain hours of the day when each sex was admitted. Women generally had the afternoons and the men the evenings. They were traditionally places where people gathered to socialise, gossip and exchange news.
The Ottoman hammam, particularly the women's section held fascination for the West. It was an immediate attraction for European artist travellers because it was portrayed as exotic as the harem. Amongst many types of scenes featuring bazaars and desert scenes, the Hamman was a popular scene with the Orientalist art movement in the 19th century, many artists depicted seductive and glamourous scenes of interior baths featuring nude and semi clad women in many of their paintings.
Related themes
Orientalist Watercolour Painting20Th Century Orientalist ArtOrientalist PaintingOrientalist ArtistArabic Interior
Artist: Rozlynn M Lawrence-Manasfi
Genre: MENA Orientalist
Middle East and North African "MENA" artist, whose works predominantly represent orientalist era in the arts of ancient Middle East, North Africa, Egypt and Turkey, depicting scenes of Arabian pictorial history in landscape and figurative style.
Fantasy of the Orient
Her paintings are a romantic fantasy of the Orient, populated with exotic rich sensual and colourful scenes of worlds beyond Europe, illustrating rug sellers, dancers, harems, turbaned men in luscious velvet cloaks, the alluring odalisques, women in luxurious clothing, jewelled slippers, silks and velvet gowns with beautiful beaded embellishment, dusty bazaars, souks, snake charmers, with traders in the bustling Arabic markets, selling their wares of beautiful orient trinkets, hookah, lush decorative fabrics, beautiful textiles in vibrant glowing shimmering colours of red, green, gold, blue, yellow and pink, lavish tapestry, beautiful Arabesque tiles, mosques and architecture to the golden sands of the hot desert and palm trees, an oasis set in a mysterious far away land.
About the Artist
English autodidactic painter, born in London, grew up in the 1960's Shoreditch, London.
Her artistic influence expanded and blossomed with the introduction of Orientalism in art in the early 1980's. Beautifully vibrant and lush, she populated a series of Middle East, Orientalist scenes in Watercolour by famous artists Giulio Rosati and Antonio Gargiullo.
By the late 1980's she developed her own style, painting more in oils extending her skills to commissioned work for friends, painting their favourite subjects. In the 1990's a window opened to assist at a local community Sunday art club at Napier Grove N1, run by artists for the local community, thus proving opportunity to interact with other artists an opportunity to network, show and exhibit her works at the club, with encouragement to show and sell her paintings to a wider audience.
Exhibitions and Selling
In the past a handful of paintings were shown in the gallery space at the Lion and Lamb, Hoxton, she exhibited a painting in the London Mall Gallery in the 1980's, but rarely participate in exhibitions, painting being secondary to her main professional career, nevertheless the Artist has successfully sold most of her works, as demonstrated by the steady sales of her paintings in the UK and Europe to private clients and galleries.
A collection of her paintings can be viewed at her portfolio on the Artmajeur Gallery website. Details about the Artist are documented on Wikipedia.
Some much earlier paintings bear the FAR branding with FAR tags. These were documented on the Fine Art Registry (FAR) until FAR abandoned hundreds of artists without warning, the site went down in 2012 with no recovery of digital images. Fortunately, most digital images were curated on the Artmajeur platform.
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Nationality:
UNITED KINGDOM
- Date of birth : 1958
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary British Artists
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