A painting by 19th century Ottoman painter Osman Hamdi Bey has been sold in a London auction for almost $6 million.
The 1890 painting “Koranic Instruction” was sold by London-based auctioneers the Sotheby’s to an unnamed bidder for £4,64 million ($5,92 million).
The art piece was valued between £3-5 million before the auction.
The painting was a piece of the Important Works from the Najd Collection.
The painter’s “Girl Reciting Quran” was sold to Malaysian Islamic Arts Museum last month in London for £6.3 million.
Osman Hamdi Bey was a pioneering Turkish painter who lived between 1842 and 1910.
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