İZMİR A painting that has hung on the wall of a house in the western city of İzmir for over half a century has been identified as the work of Muide Esad, one of the Ottoman Empire’s first generation of female painters. The painting’s years-long journey traces back to 1972, when dentist Efe Erginer moved from Istanbul to İzmir with his family. At a farewell dinner, poet İdris Pura gifted him two artworks, one an oil landscape, the other a gouache painting of Istanbul. The second piece, which