09 Paintings by Orientalist Artist Otto Pilny’s Desert dance scene, with footnotes, #98
Nov 28, 2024
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…