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COLIN CAMPBELL COOPER A Street in Kairouan, Tunisia.
Estimate:
$1,500 - $2,500
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$3,640
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American Art
Description
Description: COLIN CAMPBELL COOPER A Street in Kairouan, Tunisia. Gouache on wove paper, 1929. 445x375 mm; 17½x14¾ inches. Signed in pencil, lower left recto.Ex-collection private collection, Pennsylvania.An esteemed American Impressionist known for his luminous views of New York in the early 1900s, and an inveterate world traveler, at age 73, Cooper (1856-1937) visited Tunisia where he lived for two years before returning to the U.S. and settling in Santa Barbara. This work on paper shows what is likely the tower of the Mosque of of Sidi Amor Abbada.