Guarisco Gallery 2012

60 Prosper Lecourtier (Fr., 1855-1924) Arab Warrior on Horseback signed, bronze 33”H x 29”L x 12”D Ernst Koerner German, 1846-1927 Golden Horn Looking at Sulemymaniye Mosque signed, d. 1916, o/c 40” x 59-1/2” 45” x 64-1/2” fr. Orientalist Art rientalism was a style of art that depicted scenes derived from the Near East including mosques, sheikh’s tombs, harems, souks, or mar- kets, and desert encampments. Artists and ad- venturers who flocked to North Africa and the Near East were fascinated by the “exoticness” of the landscape, people, and cultural practices, and often recorded them in sketchbooks for later use in their studios back in Europe. Orientalist themed paintings and sculptures were extremely popular in France and Britain and were popular- ized by Eugène Delacroix, Jean Léon Gérôme, and Frederick Leighton. O