Elsa Sahal Hey, Halil Bey!

Hey, Halil Bey! is an imaginary conversation with Egyptian born Turkish-Albanian statesman Halil Sherif Pasha, known for being a diplomat who served in Paris and Vienna during the Tanzimat era.
He was a visionary collector who commissioned Gustave Courbet’s masterpieces “L’origine du monde” & “Le sommeil” and collected the greatest works of the 19th century from Ingres to Delacroix...