Showing posts with label Inji Aflatoun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inji Aflatoun. Show all posts

Sunday, May 10, 2015

9 Works at the Contemporary Art / Doha. Abdelaziz Gorgi, Abdulnasser Gharem, Inji Aflatoun, Kour Pour, Mahjoub Ben Bella, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Nabil Nahas, Nejib Belkhodja,

Inji Aflatoun
1924 - 1989
L'OR BLANC (WHITE GOLD)
signed and dated 63; signed and titled on the stretcher
oil on canvas 
66.5 by 79.5cm.; 26 1/8 by 31 1/4 in.

Abdelaziz Gorgi
1928-2008
JOUEURS DE CHKOBA; VEILLÉE DU RAMADAN (CHKOBA PLAYERS; EVE OF RAMADAN)
signed
acrylic, gold leaf, ink and pen on paper
76 by 55cm.; 29 7/8 by 21 3/4 in.
Executed circa 1960-1969. 

Mahjoub Ben Bella
B. 1946
UNTITLED 
signed
oil on canvas 
133 by 95cm.; 52 1/4 by 37 1/2 in.
Executed in 1987

Rachid Koraïchi
B.1947
NEDJMA (THE FOUR SEASONS) 
hand woven and embroidery silk, in four parts 
Each: 304 by 152 by 7cm.; 119 3/4 by 59 7/8 by 2 3/4 in.
Executed in 2009.

Nabil Nahas
B. 1949
COLOR BLIND
signed, titled, and dated 1998 on the reverse
acrylic on canvas
121.9 by 121.9 by 8.9 cm.; 48 by 48 by 3 1/2 in.

Nejib Belkhodja
1933 - 2007
MEDINA ENTRE DEUX ORAGES (MEDINA BETWEEN TWO STORMS)
signed and titled on the reverse 
acrylic on canvas
96.5 by 194cm.; 38 by 76 1/4 in.
Executed circa 1982.

Kour Pour

B. 1987

LOVE CHILD 
signed and dated 2010 on the reverse of each panel
acrylic on canvas, in eight parts
Overall: 122 by 183cm.; 48 by 72 in.

Abdulnasser Gharem
B.1973
MEN AT WORK (TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR 2003: THE AMERICAN SOLDIER) 
ink and lacquer paint on rubber stamps and board, in four parts 
Overall: 160 by 200cm.; 63 by 78 3/4 in.
Executed in 2011.

Monir Farmanfarmaian
B. 1924
A NEW SPRING 
signed and dated 2007 twice on the reverse 
mirror, reverse-glass painting and plaster on wood 
93.5 by 122.5cm.; 36 1/2 by 48 1/4 in.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Contemporary Art / Doha - Inji Aflatoun

Inji Aflatoun
1924 - 1989
L'OR BLANC (WHITE GOLD)
signed and dated 63; signed and titled on the stretcher
oil on canvas 
66.5 by 79.5cm.; 26 1/8 by 31 1/4 in.

She further pursued her art education under the tutelage of Kamel El Telmissany, one of the founders of the Art and Freedom movement.  He introduced her to the life of common Egyptian peasant, which was a far cry from her upbringing and education at Lycée Français du Caire.  Efflatoun’s immersion into the common Egyptian life transformed her into a staunch nationalist. She refused to further pursue her artistic education in France at the behest of her family. Rooted in her need to discover her Egyptian identity, Efflatoun recounts: “it was impossible for me to leave Egypt and go to counties of the foreigners when I was passing by a hard period of Egyptianizing myself, all my life I talked in French. Eighteen years have slipped in my life in this secluded society even in my native language I could not talk it to the extent that when I began really frequenting the people of my country I couldn’t communicate with them in their language. What a misery I felt un-rooted.” More