The anonymous Middle East collector of the Najd Collection of orientalist art is selling 40 works he acquired in the 1970s and ’80s for an estimated £25 million to £40 million (US$30.1 million ...

Orientalist art refers (mostly) to paintings depicting areas such as the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and the Gulf, and it has long been one key sub-sector of the 19th-century European ...

There’s a specific gaze that accompanied orientalist artists, a fascination laced with condescension. 'They exoticise, they mysticise, they romanticise,' said DAG's Giles Tillotson.

A Jean-Léon Gérôme painting that was authenticated after appearing on the BBC show Fake or Fortune sold for £94,500 with fees ($130,000) on Tuesday during Sotheby’s “The Orientalist sale.” ...