Orientalist and Middle Eastern Week

Sotheby’s is delighted to announce Orientalist & Middle Eastern Week in London, encompassing The Orientalist Sale, 20th Century Art/Middle East, and Arts of the Islamic World including fine rugs and carpets. These three dedicated sales showcase works of art, manuscripts, paintings, and textiles produced by artists from multiple Islamic empires which flourished from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries in North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, Persia, and India; as well as Western artists’ impressions of the ‘Orient’, as these lands came to be described in the nineteenth century.