Large Orientalist Eastern Figurative Oil Painting

French Large Orientalist Painting, Signed "JH Naets", on the lower, right-hand corner. Oil on Canvas, 19th-Century, beautifully framed. ...

Italian orientalist oil on canvas painting. 20th century. The fine oil painting depicting an orientalist woman dressed in traditional garments w...

Mid Century acrylic on canvas painting of a Middle Eastern Street scene executed with bold impressionistic brush strokes. Depicting exotic Architecture ...

French Figurative Oil Painting by Charles Levier. Titled "Une femme devant la mer", this masterful work of a well-known listed French artist whose work can be compared to Bernard Buf...

19th Century Spanish Orientalist Framed Oil on Canvas Painting Measurements with frame: 61.5x72.5x4cm.

Large, early 20th century orientalist painting. Oil on canvas. No trace of signature.

Large, early 20th century orientalist painting. Oil on canvas. No trace of signature.

Large, early 20th century orientalist painting. Oil on canvas. No trace of signature.

Gordon B. Coutts (Scottish/American, 1868-1937) A very fine and large orientalist oil on canvas titled "Ashura Rituals, Tangier" (Arabic: عاشوراء‎ ʻĀshūrā’ - Urdu: عاشورا‎ - Persian: عاشورا‎ - Turkish: Aşure Günü). Signed and inscribed: 'Gordon Coutts/TANGIER' (lower right), circa 1920. Provenance: The Fisher Art Museum, University of Southern California. Gordon Coutts led a peripatetic career, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he then studied and travelled to Glasgow, London, Paris and Rome before settling in Melbourne, Australia in 1891. In 1896 he moved to Sydney, where he taught at the Art Society of New South Wales, before returning back to Europe in 1899. With the climate of northern Europe detrimental to Coutts' poor health, he moved with his wife, Alice Grey, to the United States where he became a frequent exhibitor at the Bohemian Club in San Francisco. In 1920 he travelled to Tangiers, Morocco where, dressed as an Arab, he passed from tribe to tribe observing the lifestyle, customs and practices of the the village people and Bedouins. The present work depicts the celebration of Ashura. The day of Ashura is commemorated by Shi'ite Muslims; "A day of pain, pilgrimage and pageantry, it is one of the holiest in their religion. The word Ashura means 10, and refers to the tenth day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. This is a period of mourning and cleansing, which marks the martyrdom of Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad...

French Victorian (19th Century) oil painting of a Middle-Eastern street scene in an ornate, carved giltwood frame (signed).