The anonymous Middle East collector of the Najd Collection of orientalist art is selling 40 works he acquired in the 1970s and ’80s for an estimated £25 million to £40 million (US$30.1 million ...

Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia exhibition 'Orientalist Paintings: Mirror Or Mirage?' captures the story of the Orientalist art phenomenon in the 19th century ...

Orientalist art refers (mostly) to paintings depicting areas such as the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and the Gulf, and it has long been one key sub-sector of the 19th-century European ...

As recently as 20 years ago, Arabs showed little interest in Orientalist works — paintings of Middle Eastern scenes by European artists — which were seen as an exotic distortion of the reality ...

Although figures in Middle Eastern garments can be seen in Renaissance paintings and in works by Rembrandt and French artists, Orientalist themes became popular in Western art after Napoleon’s ...

Orientalist art was once derided. ... He sees no cultural insult in Orientalism. His collection has paintings from the French Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824--1904), ...

By 1910, Orientalism had virtually disappeared from view in the West—not because of its subject matter, but because of its style. Throughout most of the 20 th century, all academic art—good or ...

Art historian Emily M. Weeks, an expert on 19th-century British visual culture, said Gabr and others who collect Orientalist works are engaged in "a reappropriation" of regional identity.

Orientalism was once derided as a racist and eroticized style of art. Now its biggest fans are collectors from the Middle East. The lush, Orientalist oil by Danish painter Elisabet Jerichau ...