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Portrait of a Punjabi, bust-lenght in military headdress
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Hubert Vos (1855-1935)
Portrait of a Punjabi, bust-lenght in military headdress
signed and dated lower left Hubert Vos 98
oil on canvas
77 x 36 cm
Portrait of a Punjabi, bust-lenght in military headdress
signed and dated lower left Hubert Vos 98
oil on canvas
77 x 36 cm
Literature
Century Magazine, LX, June 1900, p. 165, illustrated.
Elseviers geïlliustreerd maandschrift, XXIII, 1913, p. 193, fig. 10. J. Bandiera, An Examinationof the Art and Career of Hubert Vos (unpublished manuscript, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1976), p. 14, pls.21 and 24, no. 4.
Hubert Vos was born in Holland studied in Brussels and Paris and moved to the United States, which became his adoptive country. He became fascinated with the native races of the world and travelled round the world portraying various racial types. He completed about forty portraits, which were exhibited in New York, Washington D.C. and Paris. This lot was executed while the artits was in Hong Kong, from subjects chosen from the British-Indian army units stationed there.
In a letter dated October 9, 1911, Vos wrote: 'The British-Indian regiments were mustered out in their native dress for my inspection and instruction, and the types I selected were ordered by His Excell. the Governor to pose for me in my temporary Studio in the Hong Kong Hotel...I...found there my two types of the Himalaya mountain races, the 'Punjab' and the 'Kattack'
Elseviers geïlliustreerd maandschrift, XXIII, 1913, p. 193, fig. 10. J. Bandiera, An Examinationof the Art and Career of Hubert Vos (unpublished manuscript, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1976), p. 14, pls.21 and 24, no. 4.
Hubert Vos was born in Holland studied in Brussels and Paris and moved to the United States, which became his adoptive country. He became fascinated with the native races of the world and travelled round the world portraying various racial types. He completed about forty portraits, which were exhibited in New York, Washington D.C. and Paris. This lot was executed while the artits was in Hong Kong, from subjects chosen from the British-Indian army units stationed there.
In a letter dated October 9, 1911, Vos wrote: 'The British-Indian regiments were mustered out in their native dress for my inspection and instruction, and the types I selected were ordered by His Excell. the Governor to pose for me in my temporary Studio in the Hong Kong Hotel...I...found there my two types of the Himalaya mountain races, the 'Punjab' and the 'Kattack'
Exhibited
New York, Union League Club.
Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Paris, Exposition Internationale Universelle, 1900.
New York, The Holland House Corporation of The Netherlands,
Rulers of the Far East by Hubert Vos, 1944.
Connecticut, Stamford Museum.
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, Hubert Vos, Dutch-American Painter, 1979, 00. 3 no. 15, pl. 10.
Rhode Island, Art Association of Newport, Hubert Vos Retrospective, 1981.
Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Paris, Exposition Internationale Universelle, 1900.
New York, The Holland House Corporation of The Netherlands,
Rulers of the Far East by Hubert Vos, 1944.
Connecticut, Stamford Museum.
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, Hubert Vos, Dutch-American Painter, 1979, 00. 3 no. 15, pl. 10.
Rhode Island, Art Association of Newport, Hubert Vos Retrospective, 1981.