ONAT, HIKMET
Istanbul 1882 - 1977
Title: Palast-Interieur.
Date: 1955.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 60 x 72cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower left: Hikmet Onat 1955.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Provenance:
- Comporate collection, Germany
- Hikmet Onat is one of the leading Turkish Impressionists
- Interior scenery in a romantic mood and detailed painting
- Onat interprets typical Ottoman domestic culture with the eye of a Western painter
- He shows tradition, but through an impressionistic, light lens, not as an ethnographic depiction.