NAZMI ZIYA GÜRAN (1881-1937) View of Constantinople... Lot 558

NAZMI ZIYA GÜRAN (1881-1937) View of Constantinople and the Bosphorus Oil on canvas signed lower right. Rare Impressionist painting by the Turkish Master Nazmi Ziya Güran with a view of Istanbul. Canvas to be restored, tear. Unframed. Size: 32.5 x 40.5 cm Provenance: Private collection, Nice. Turkish impressionist painter born in Istanbul, he asked his family to let him attend the Academy of Fine Arts in his native city, but they refused. He did, however, manage to take private lessons from Hoca Ali Riza and, on the death of his father, he discreetly took classes at the Academy with the Italian Orientalist painter Salvatore Valeri. It was a meeting with Signac, passing through Istanbul, that decided him to move to Paris in 1908, where he remained until 1914. He started at the Académie Julian in Marcel Baschet's studio before being admitted to the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Fernand Cormon's studio. Turkey's leading Impressionist artist, a member of the Ottoman Painters Association and belonging to the group generally known as "The Generation of 1914", Nazmi Ziya contributed to the spread of Impressionism in his country.