Orientalist scene sets new auction high for Turkish painter at Bonhams
A record price for Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910) was set at Bonhams when a painting ‘Young Woman Reading’ surpassed a £600,000-800,000 estimate and was knocked down at £5.7m.
The sum represented a huge return on the £1900 that it fetched at a Sotheby's auction in London in A…