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« on: May 30, 2009, 08:53:23 am »




               

                SOTHEBY’S

                “Femme Circassienne Voílée,”

                 painted in 1876 by Jean-Léon Gérôme,
                 sold in 2008 for more than two million
                 pounds sterling.









These shifts are part of a larger, gradual, mostly sympathetic reevaluation that has been taking place over the past few decades of much 19th-century Euro-pean art. For the Orientalists, the first signs of renewed appreciation came with the early oil boom of the 1970’s, when the Mathaf Gallery opened in London following the 1975 World of Islam Festival, marking the first specialist venue for the sale of Orientalism since the genre’s demise in the 1930’s. Mathaf was aimed particularly at the new market in the Middle East.

Since then, interest in Orientalist art has been led by the cognoscenti of the cultures depicted—mostly in the Arabian Peninsula, followed by North Africa. “The majority of my sales are still to Arab clients,” says Brian MacDermott, the gallery’s director. Controversy over the genre “has actually fueled a lot of interest,” he says—but not all controversy: “Naturally there’s a desire for accuracy relating to customs and traditions.” Even so, most of the paintings in an exhibition called “Enter the Harem” were bought by clients from the Arab world.
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