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Frederick Arthur Bridgman
Young Girl in Blue

1878

$225,000
£168,704.30
€195,587.70
CA$313,999.38
A$350,708.59
CHF 182,238.84
MX$4,270,925
NOK 2,314,840.50
SEK 2,181,246.95
DKK 1,459,321.65
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Frederick Arthur Bridgman was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, then later moved to Boston and New York. Before long, he had enlisted a group of Brooklyn businessmen to support the furtherance of his training in Paris. Bridgman spent the summers of 1866 and 1867 in Pont-Aven, Brittany where, under the influence of the Philadelphia artist Robert Wylie, he painted rustic landscapes and peasant subjects. But this early trajectory was to change for good soon after being admitted to the Paris atelier of the eminent Orientalist, Jean-Léon Gérôme. He remained in Gérôme’s atelier for four years and became one of his favorite students. Through this invaluable connection, Bridgman began selling paintings through Gérôme’s dealer Goupil and exhibiting at the Paris Salon. He traveled frequently to North Africa where he painted local people and places. Various circumstances, including his wife’s frail health, led to several extended visits to Algiers in the later 1880s. Bridgman wrote a series of articles for Harper’s Monthly Magazine which culminated in the publication of his sumptuously illustrated book Winters in Algeria in 1889. Bridgman was at his artistic peak and thriving on the plethora of visual stimuli which Algiers provided him – it looked, he wrote, “like a great irregular stair-way of terraces, blind and blank under the sunshine.” While “working on one of these terraces one afternoon,” he wrote, he was “completely surrounded and enveloped in whites – yellow, gray, blue, green, and pink whites – delicious whites in shadow, of those refined tones so terrible to do justice to on canvas, and with which one must wrestle.” [Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Winters in Algeria, New York, 1889, p. 23].
  • Creator:
    Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847 - 1928, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1878
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 13.75 in (34.93 cm)Width: 10.75 in (27.31 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1637216560042

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