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Sotheby's Annual Orientalist Sale, Features Paintings Representing North Africa, Egypt, Arabia, the Levant, Persia
ArtDaily Mar 12, 2020Sotheby’s Orientalist Sale, now in its ninth season and held during Islamic week, brings together paintings representing the landscapes, people, and customs of North Africa, Egypt, Arabia, the Levant, Persia, and the Ottoman world during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Travelers from French scientific missions to Anatolia brought back a sober and non-exoticized vision of the Orient during the 19th century.