Osman Hamdi Bey’s painting “Kahve Ocağı” (The Hearth) will be up for sale at an auction organized by Bonhams, one of the world’s leading auction houses, at the 19th Century and British Impressionist Art Auction in London on March 26.

Osman Hamdi Bey, Kahve Ocağı (The Hearth) (1879), $1.51m to $2.27m estimate, is due to be sold at Bonhams 19th Century and British Impressionist Art Auction in London on March 26, 2025. Oil On Canvas, 52.5 x 41.0cm. The work has been traded once in the past.

Turkey has a rich and diverse artistic heritage, with a plethora of talented artists who have made significant contributions to various art movements and styles.

Although unusual in paintings, tortoises can have several different readings, from love to slow and faltering political reforms.

As part of the 100th-anniversary celebrations of the Turkish Republic, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will organize the 100th Anniversary Gala event on Oct. 25, with an exhibition featuring Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey’s painting “Girl Reading the Qur’an” and artwork from Burhan Doğançay’s “Ribbons” series.

The work was sold at Dorotheum, Online for the estimated price.

Opened in September with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the museum has approximately 12,000 works of art in its collection including paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, icons and one installation, and will be permanently open for art goers.

The pioneering school not only offers an education that combines different disciplines but also raises the leading artists of the country.

VIENNA — An exhibition centered on three paintings, each by a different artist, could hardly be considered revolutionary at any major museum, such as the Belvedere in Vienna.

While there were many urgent problems that needed to be dealt with, citizens of the war-torn country were eagerly waiting to build a new nation, mark its existence in the world and reestablish and revive its roots.

For several centuries, women who were the subjects of the erstwhile Ottoman Empire and whose families were close to the palace, practised fine arts as a hobby and within the confines of their homes.

Because on the one hand it was an empire that behaved like other empires and subdued and exploited foreign territories, suppressed uprisings and secured trade privileges militarily.

It may be a relatively small category, eclipsed by the record-breaking sales of contemporary art that dominate the headlines, but Orientalist art has been making a quiet comeback in recent years.

Gül İrepoğlu, a well-known Turkish architect, art historian and writer, has been appointed as the founding curator of the museum, where rare artworks from the İşbank collection will be presented to the public.

An exhibition featuring works of Osman Hamdi Bey, founder of cultural heritage research in the Ottoman Empire, and Ara Guler, famous Turkish-Armenian photographer, was opened within Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) is currently being held in Turkey's famed southern summer resort Belek.

Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM), one of Istanbul's most prominent museums, has debuted a new exhibition that showcases the historical journey of the art of painting in Turkey.

The exhibition presents the historical journey of the art of painting in Turkey and features a total of 115 artworks from the SSM Painting Collection by artists, including Hoca Ali Rıza, Hal-ife Abdülmecid Efendi, Hüseyin Zekâi Paşa, Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Şevket Dağ, Hikmet Onat, Hüseyin Avni Lifij, İbrahim Çallı, Nazmi Ziya Güran and also one of the pioneering woman artist, Mihri (Müşfik) Hanım.

The National Palaces Painting Museum in Istanbul's teeming Besiktas district was reopened by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this January following a multi-year restoration project.

The Osman Hamdi Bey House and Museum in Turkey’s northwestern Kocaeli province will be transformed into a "prestige museum" by the Ministry of...

ISTANBUL The National Palaces Painting Museum in Istanbul’s Dolmabahçe Palace has become one of the foremost painting museums in the world, with its collection of more than 3,000 paintings in its inventory and the opportunity to exhibit 553 paintings at the same time. The museum, in which restorat...