Alphonse Birck,  A North African street scene

Lot description

Alphonse Birck, French 1859-1942- A North African street scene; pencil and watercolour on paper, signed 'A Birck' (lower right), 50 x 37.3 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: Birck travelled widely around the Middle East and North Africa, returning often to Algeria, where he spent much of his life, and which inspired much of the artist's creative output. The light colour palette of the present work is a characteristic feature of Birck's watercolours, conveying a sense of the bright sunlight beating down on the streets and figures below. The same street appears in an almost identical composition by Birck which sold at Millon, Paris, on 30 November 2015 (lot 211) for €1,200.