The Orientalist Sale represents the landscapes, people and cultures of North Africa, Egypt, the Levant, Arabia and the Ottoman world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In 2021, Sotheby’s sold over £6 million worth of Orientalist Art, of which 85% was to buyers from the Islamic world.
Our next sale will be a live auction held on 29 March alongside, and cross-marketed with, our Arts of the Islamic World sale. Already consigned to the sale are works by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Ludwig Deutsch, Alberto Pasini, and Rudolf Ernst.
Illustrated:
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Lion in the Desert
£30,000-50,000
Should you own Orientalist works you would like to sell in this buoyant market, please contact one of our specialists below.
For assistance with bidding and registration, please contact:
+44 20 7293 5283
For sale enquiries please contact:
Claude Piening
Senior Director
Senior Specialist
19th Century Continental Paintings
Mark Poltimore
Senior Director
Deputy Chairman, Europe
Business Development
Simon Toll
Senior Director
Senior Specialist
Victorian Paintings
Tessa Kostrzewa
Senior Director
Specialist
19th Century Continental Paintings
Emma Gordon
Specialist
European Paintings & British Pictures
Harry Edmonds
Paintings Coordinator
European Paintings & British Pictures
Charlotte Mattocks
Administrator
European Paintings & British Pictures
CHARLOTTE.MATTOCKS@SOTHEBYS.COM
all images © the gallery and the artist(s)
