Vue des toits de Paris
A delicate watercolor painting depicting the rooftops of Paris, executed on silk and laid down on paper by Sam Szafran. The work captures the architectural beauty of the French capital's urban landscape.
- Medium
- watercolour on silk laid down on paper
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Curated
June 29, 2021
Estimate: $60,000 to $80,000
Lot 113
Artists in conversation
Charles Meryon
French · b. 1821
Meryon devoted his career to capturing the rooftops and architectural fabric of Paris with extraordinary delicacy and atmospheric depth, sharing Szafran's obsessive focus on the Parisian urban skyline as a subject of lyrical beauty.
Eugène Atget
French · b. 1857
Though working in photography, Atget approached Parisian roofscapes and urban architecture with the same tender, melancholic attentiveness that defines Szafran's watercolor, conveying the quiet poetry of the city's layered built environment.
Cuno Amiet
Swiss · b. 1868
Amiet created luminous watercolors of European urban and rural landscapes using similarly translucent, delicate washes that evoke light filtering across architectural surfaces, closely paralleling the refined atmospheric quality of Szafran's Parisian rooftop scenes.
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