Henri Matisse - L'Odalisque, harmonie bleue 1937
L'Odalisque, harmonie bleue 1937
60x49cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 33.64 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 6 November 2007
Seller: Heirs of Paul Rosenberg
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
Orientalism, the European fascination with the arts and culture of the Islamic peoples of North Africa and the Near East, had its heyday in painting during the latter part of the 19th century and in the years before the First World War, when Western colonialist expansion in these lands was at its height.