It may be a relatively small category, eclipsed by the record-breaking sales of contemporary art that dominate the headlines, but Orientalist art has been making a quiet comeback in recent years. The ...

In its sale of European paintings in New York next week, Sotheby’s auction house is offering a painting by the leading Orientalist painter Ludwig Deutsch. Unusually somber for this usually colorful ...

Click on image to see an enlarged view. Which New York cultural institution is currently offering the biggest shocker in the city? No, I don’t mean the beleaguered Jewish Museum, with its show of ...

When travellers to the Eastern world returned home to share captivating tales of their adventures, they ignited the imagination of their audience. Among these intrepid explorers were artists who, ...

Nearly a century after his death, the French orientalist painter Etienne Dinet has been finding new audiences in Algeria, as a new Paris exhibition reveals, writes David Tresilian Sternly criticised ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An iconic 19th Century painting depicting an Ottoman Empire reserve soldier and his hunting dogs is generating buzz ahead of an auction next week, due to a rise in popularity of ...

Art's gaze across borders makes us trace the complex layers of orientalist imagination How the canvas birthed A lush portrait in oil hangs at the Museum of Girodet in pictorial town of Montargis, ...

This week has seen one of the busiest London Islamic seasons to date with twelve auctions, with traditional divisions overlapping and with renewed demand for the sometimes culturally sensitive area of ...