ABSTRACT
Aisha leaves the auction at which Picasso's Les Femmes d'Algers was sold for a record price. As she walks through the streets of Manhattan, Aisha considers how she will write up this story for a magazine. She recalls the connection between Picasso's painting and the work of Delacroix. Her route takes her past a gallery and she stops to look at the exhibition of photographs by Lalla Essaydi. Aisha reflects on the ways in which these images provide a critique of the tropes in Orientalist painting and their colonial context.
