Eugène FROMENTIN

Orientalism has returned to favour and now occupies a key date in London’s art sales calendar. Artprice looks ahead to Sotheby’s sale on 25 April 2017. After a golden age in the 19th century, the taste for all-things Oriental lost much of its momentum, and the circle of Western enthusiasts and collectors of Orientalist art […]

France has seen a dramatic increase in the number of cultural events to celebrate Algeria Year, which include three major exhibitions of orientalist art: “De Delacroix à Renoir, l’Algérie des peintres”, at the Arab World Institute (until 18 January 2004), “Fantaisies du Harem et nouvelles Schéhérazade” at Lyon’s Natural History Museum (until 4 January 2004) and “De Delacroix à Matisse – Dessins du musée des Beaux-Arts d’Alger” at the Louvre (until 19 January 2004).