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Scattered seven-figure highlights failed to make up for dozens of passed lots and multiple key withdrawals

We talk to Arne Everwijn, Director of 19th Century European Art at Christie’s, for an expert overview of an increasingly popular genre of painting filled with exotic visions of markets...

This report on the Sotheby's Rembrandt to Richter sale in July 2020 by Colin Gleadell features important details on buyers

Postponed from 1 April and 31 March respectively, Sotheby’s sales of Arts of the Islamic World & India, and more than thirty further works from the legendary Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings, are now scheduled to take place this June.

On 22 October 2019, thirty-six works from the legendary Najd Collection together sold for a record total of £33.5 million, with nine further records broken for the greatest exponents of the genre.

Busy auction series brought records for Osman Hamdi Bey and Jean-Léon Gérôme, and controversial sale of two illustrated folios separated from a Persian manuscript

Sotheby’s to Offer 40 Works from the Legendary Najd Collection in Dedicated Auction on the evening of 22 October 2019

Precious records of the history of the Islamic world, Orientalist paintings provide a unique window into a realm that has forever changed, capturing in technicolour detail every aspect of life in the region.

Specialist Arne Everwijn hails ‘the texture, the rituals, the light, colour and detail’ in this vision of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus — detail that has made the Orientalist artist’s ‘windows into the past’ much sought after in the Middle East

We talk to Arne Everwijn, Director of 19th Century European Art at Christie’s, for an expert overview of a flourishing category filled with exotic visions of markets, mosques and harems painted by inquisitive European artists of the 19th century

Christie’s London will present a standalone auction of Orientalist Art on 29 April, 2019.

At the crossroads between realism and fantasy, fanciful decoration and meaningful symbolism, and admiration and condescension lies Orientalism.