Between 26 September 2008 and 11 January 2009, Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum welcomes “The Lure of the East” British Orientalist Painting exhibition organized in association with Tate Britain, one of the most distinguished art institutions of the world, and the British Council. The exhibition brings together some of the most important works of British Orientalist painting around the world.
Opened previously at the Yale Center for British Art, U.S.A. in February 2008 and Tate Britain Linbury Galleries in June 2008, the widely acclaimed The Lure of the East exhibition will be displayed on three floors of Pera Museum. .After the U.S. and the U.K., İstanbul and Pera Museum is the third destination for these extraordinary paintings. The 105 masterpieces included in the exhibition will be accompanied by highlights such as Osman Hamdi Bey’s “Two Young Female Musicians” and Henry Bone’s “Portrait of Thomas Hope in Turkish Dress” from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Collection, as well as David Wilkie’s Portrait of Sultan Abdülmecid from the Topkapı Palace Collection.. In February 2009, the exhibition will travel to its fourth destination, the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates books of exhibition.
360 pp, color figures, Turkish / English bilingual.