The Tortoise Trainer — Osman Hamdi Bey

The Tortoise Trainer — Osman Hamdi Bey

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The Tortoise Trainer — Osman Hamdi Bey
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The Tortoise Trainer — Osman Hamdi Bey

The Tortoise Trainer — Osman Hamdi Bey

$39.00
$39.00
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An aging dervish bends over five tortoises nibbling lettuce, a flute held behind his back — he is supposed to train them with music, and they are in no hurry. Osman Hamdi Bey's sly 1906 allegory of patient reform became the most famous Turkish painting of all. Pera Museum, Istanbul.

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