"... Widely acknowledged as the world’s leading collection of Orientalist art outside of museums, [Shafik] Gabr describes his three decades of collecting more than 180 paintings as not only ‘a personal journey,’ but also ‘a message I want to pass on.’ In 1993 Gabr bought his first painting: Egyptian Priest Entering a Temple, painted in 1892 by Ludwig Deutsch, a Paris-based artist of Austrian heritage and one of the most prominent Orientalists. Its pharaonic theme, Gabr says, resonated. ...”
2018 April: Orientalism - Edward W. Said (1978)
Étienne Dinet - “Spectators Admiring a Dancer,” 1905.
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