Impressionistic street scene with a oriental woman with Turkish coffee pot was created about 1900 in pointillist manner. The author Spiro (Spiridon) Bocaric (1878 Budva - 1941 Banjaluka), famous painter of Serbian origin. He studied at the Academy in Venice, lived and worked till I World War in Sarajevo/Bosnia and then in Banjaluka. His portrait, genre and interior paintings in pointillist technique with ottoman motives are very popular among collectors in Europe and Turkey.

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Inscription: signed lower right.

Technique: oil on canwas. Old gallery gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed w 11 3/4" x h 15 1/2" (30 x 39,5 cm); framed 17 1/3" x 21 1/4" ( 44 x 54 cm)

Condition: in very good condition