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-Baumann ...

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 to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - 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 ...

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 ...

While French Impressionists were creating their masterpieces in the 1870s and ’80s, the glory often went elsewhere—to artists known as Orientalists, who worked in their Paris studios on fanciful ...

“Near East to Far West,” an exhibition at Colorado’s Denver Art Museum, intentionally shows viewers a false depiction of history. The exhibition is designed to make us reckon with colonialism in the ...

A new exhibition at the British Museum, reveals how a colonial art movement’s impact is still felt today, writes Sophia Smith-Galer. Harems, fezes and monkeys. Long shisha pipes are entwined around ...

27 October 2007 Doha: An exhibition of art showcasing exceptional 19th and 20th-century Impressionist and Orientalist works by leading artists of the genre will take place in Qatar at the Four Seasons ...