After Adam STYKA(1890) Morocco Arab Turkish and 50 similar items

This is for a stunning oil on canvas painting after Adam Styka signed lower right and on the reverse. This masterpiece was Herman Golo's homage in 1968 to Styka's captivating style. This painting exemplifies fine art. Styka's original work 'Under the Moroccan Sun' sold 25 years ago at Christie's in London and has not been seen ever since. Why the misspelling of Styka? I'm not sure. In the 60's all they had were reference books like artist registries listed by last name and color catalogs. It's possible that Golo wanted to prevent an art dealer from matching the name and then acquiring the painting. The original gold frame has a reddish inset edging and is in excellent condition. The cloth mat shows some spots. A modern cleaner would likely clear them up though it doesn't detract from the piece overall. Adam Styka was one of many great artists drawn to North Africa. Others who painted Morocco include 19th-century Orientalists like Eugène Delacroix, Edwin Lord Weeks and Henri Matisse as well as contemporary Moroccan painters like Lalla Essaydi, Chaïbia Talal, and Hafida Zizi. Wiki: Adam Styka(1890-1959) was a French-Polish painter. Born on April 7, 1890 to the prominent French painter Jan Styka, he went on to become a disciple of the Orientalist movement, painting depictions of the American West, exoticized foreign motifs, and religious themes. He studied in Paris at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1908 to 1912 under the direction of Fernand Cormon. After a stint in the French military Styka was awarded the National Order of Merit in tandem with French citizenship. Utilizing his newfound country's allegiance he traveled to North Africa absorbing the Islamic culture and imagery to distill into his later paintings, creating realistically rendered works featuring harem women, warriors, and desert landscapes. In 1944, Styka was commissioned to create images of Egyptian pyramids for a church in Warsaw. Styka's arrest at the hands of German soldiers hastened progress on the work where it was promptly completed and hung in the chapel until it was destroyed in a church fire years later. Styka's time in North Africa was a period fertile in landscapes and portraits of Arabs, Berbers and orientalist genre scenes. There his palette became dazzling under the North African sun. He is nicknamed the "Painter of the Sun.” He exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Beaux-Arts and at the Salon des Orientalistes. Later he became interested in religious themes as did his father. Many of his paintings can be found in churches in Europe and North America. In the 1950's he settled in America in Pennsylvania. Styka died on September 23, 1959 and is buried in the Pauline Fathers / Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa cemetery in Doylestown, PA. Museums: – Paris (Orsay Museum), Marseille, Bernay, Niort, Montpellier (Fabre Museum), Toulon Bibliography: – Catalog of the Styka exhibition, Georges Petit gallery, Paris – “Dictionary of painters”, Bénézit, Grund, 1999 – Gérald Schurr, “The little masters of painting”, editions of the amateur, 1989. Free shipping and insurance in the U.S.