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Arabic Fine Art Print
Print, A Thousand and One Nights
is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. The illustration is part of a series created by the Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen in the late 1910s.
Nielsen's artwork is considered a masterpiece of early 20th-century illustration. The illustrations were originally intended for a new translation of the tales, but the book was never published during Nielsen's lifetime due to financial constraints following World War I. The illustrations were eventually published posthumously in the 1970s and later in a collector's edition by Taschen in 2015. Nielsen also contributed to many Disney films, including the "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria" sequences in Fantasia.
The image depicts a scene from "The History of Noureddin Ali and Bedreddin Hassan".
Arabic Fine Art Print