09 Paintings by Orientalist Artist Otto Pilny’s Desert dance scene, with footnotes, #98

Otto Pilny, Budweis 1866–1936 Zurich
Dance in the Desert, c. 1918

Oil on canvas, unlined
112 x 161 cm.; 47¾ x 63½ in.
Private collection

Pilny was especially interested in capturing the effects of directional light on the sand and figures in order to evoke a powerful impression, sometimes at the expense of ethnographic accuracy, as in the present work…

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