Rare at auction: Hamdi Bey work

Since 1984, only about 20 paintings by the Turkish artist Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910) have come on the auction market and many of his best-known works are in international museums.

Dorotheum in Vienna is offering his Portrait of a Turkish Lady from Constantinople from 1881 in it…

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