Adam Styka (1890-1959) - Orientalist painter

From the Styka Family website: :
Adam Styka was born in Poland in 1890. He completed his formal education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, Academie de Beau Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka. Each year he exhibited his paintings in Paris's most prestigious galleries such as Salon de Paris, Champs Des Elysses and others in Europe and countries of both Americas, where he was awarded the highest accolades.
After graduating from the French Military Academy in Fontainebleau, Styka served in the French Artillery during WWI. He was decorated with a Cross of Merit. Also as a reward, he was granted the French "Nationality Citizenship" and a special assistance from the French Government to visit French colonies in Northern Africa. As the result of these annual journeys, Styka developed an entire genre of Middle-Eastern and Oriental themes. His exquisite ability of captivating and conveying to his paintings the vibrating strong colours full of contrast of the hot Sahara Desert of Northern Africa, colours harmoniously blended together, made him a master without compare and earned him the appellation, "The Master of Sunlight".
Styka's Western paintings of the American Wild West were regarded by art critics such as Dick Owens, as the best Western paintings whenever painted by any artist. Later years of his life he spent on creating religious painting such as The Assumption of Virgin Mary and The Ascension of Jesus; all of them are located in the churches of Europe and the United States.
Adam Styka died on 23rd of September 1959 and is buried in the Alley of the Merit in the cemetery if the "New Czestochowa" of the Pauline Fathers in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

   I quite like his paintings and will add more as and when I come across them.

   For now, here are a couple that came up at the Orientalist sale at Sotheby's 12/11/08:

Marakesh - oil on board 12½" x 15½". Est £15000-20000
Unsold

The Donkey Ride - oil on canvas 21¼" x 25¾". Est £12000-£18000
Sold for £17500 (inc BP)

Another Adam Styka came up at auction at Aguttes in Paris on the 14/06/10:

Les amoureux - oil on canvas 36¼" x 28¾". Est €30000-40000.
Sold fo €43910 (inc BP)

   From a Christies sale of 19th Cent European Art at Sth Ken 2/12/04:

A donkey watering in a desert landscape - oil on board

14 7/8" x 18". Est £3000-5000.
Sold for £6214

   One painting came up in the Sotheby's sale in New York 23/10/08:

Zohra, A Moroccan Dancer - oil on canvas

30¼"x25". Estimate: US$40,000-60,000.

Sold for US$42,500.

   Waddington's Auctions in Toronto sold a painting on 13/05/08:

Eastern Beauty - oil on canvas
25½"x 21". Estimate: Can$20,000-25,000
Sold for Can$54,000

   Sold at Hampel Auctions in Munich December 10th 2011:

 Young girl with a Bedouin Arab - oil on canvas

32"x25". Sold for €11,000

   On December 4th 2011, Christie's Paris offered the following picture:

Couple enlacé - oil on canvas

33"x24". Estimate: €18,000-25,000

Unsold