Category: MIDDLE EASTERN ART
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01 Work, Middle East Artists, Omar El-Nagdi’s Untitled (Surat Yasin), with Footnotes #73
Estimate for 60,000 – 80,000 GBP in Oct 2025 Nagdi’s works can be found in the United States’ Congress Library, Washington DC; the Museum of Modern Art, Venice; the National Library, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, Cairo; the Museum of Fine Art, Alexandria; and the Museum of Modern Art, South Korea. He has exhibited…
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01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Jamil Molaeb’s Jerusalem, with Footnotes, #63
Estimated for $7,000 USD – $10,000 USD in May 2025 Jamil Molaeb (1948) was born in Baissour, Lebanon. He started his artistic career in the seventies, after training under renowned artists such as Chafic Abboud and Paul Guiragossian at the Fine Arts Institute of the Lebanese University. In 1967, 18 years old Jamil Molaeb won the 3rd…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists,Abdelbassit Ben Dahman’s Le Faucon/ the Falcon, with Footnotes #70
Abdelbassit Ben Dahman is a Moroccan visual artist born in 1949 in Tangier and died in 2018. Figurative art and realism define his style of painting… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Khalil Saleeby’s Salome, with Footnotes #68
Sold for 21,250 USD in November 2017 Salome, also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess. She is known from the New Testament, where she is not named, and from an account by Flavius Josephus. In the New Testament, the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas demands and receives the head of John the Baptist. According to…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Hayv Kahraman’s Cleaning, with Footnotes part #68
This work is part of a series of large canvases titled Domesticated Marionettes where the representation of the mundane life of an ordinary housewife is highlighted and the monotony of daily chores including that of sexual fulfillment is the focus. These women assume a false sense of sovereignty and the delusion of being queens in…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Inji Efflatoun’s Mabrouka (She who is Blessed), with Footnotes #70
Estimated for £30,000 – £50,000 in May 2025 Painted in 1953, in the immediate aftermath of Egypt’s revolution, Mabrouka stands among Inji Efflatoun’s most powerful early works: a poignant portrayal of maternal hardship and quiet resistance, rendered in her deeply empathetic figurative style. The title, Mabrouka, holds dual meaning, it may refer to the name…
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01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Suleiman Mansour’s Fisher, with Footnotes #64
Sold for USD 25,200 in May 2023 Due to fear of Israeli attacks, fishermen in Gaza started fishing from shore instead of using their boats, resulting in a modest catch as the fish near shore are typically very small. Israel has killed more than 200 fishermen and forced nearly 4,000 out of employment. 200 fishermen killed in…
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03 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Nazir Nabaa’s Untitled (Three Ladies), with Footnotes, #72
Sold for USD 87,500 in Mar 2017 As these women are set against intricately and highly rich ornamented backgrounds with arabesque geometric designs, Nabaa references the highly decorated interiors of old Damascene homes whilst simultaneously paying homage to the passage of time. Heavily adorned in beautiful Levantine elements. their beautifully intricate dresses also incorporate arabesque embroidery…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Muhanna Durra’s Untitled, with Footnotes, #70
Estimate for $4,000-$8,000 in June 2023 Muhanna Al-Dura was born in 1938, in Amman, Jordan, to a Lebanese mother and a Turkish father, He is a Jordanian Painter and a diplomat. He was one of the first painters to introduce abstract art, mainly cubism, into the Jordanian art scene. Still a schoolboy, Durra was trained…
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02 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Juliana Séraphim’s Untitled , with Footnotes , #59
Seraphim was born in Jaffa in 1934, and was among the first waves of displaced Palestinian refugees to move to Beirut, Lebanon in 1952. She was 14 when her family fled first to Sidon by boat in 1949. After their move to Beirut, she worked in refugee relief while attending art classes….. Please follow link…
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02 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Anna Boghiguian’s Zar, with Footnotes, #62
Estimated for 4,000 – 6,000 GBP in Apr 2023 In the cultures of the Horn of Africa and adjacent regions of the Middle East, Zār is the term for a demon or spirit assumed to possess individuals, mostly women, and to cause discomfort or illness. The so-called zār ritual or zār cult is the practice…
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01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Hayv Kahraman’s The Kawliya Dance, with Footnotes, #60
Sold for GBP 118,750 in 2018 Dance of El Kawliya is a dance of improvisation. The movements are full of power, earthiness, passion and a zest for life. Iraqi Gypsy dancers have kept their traditional dances alive by maintaining their simple lifestyle and by not allowing modern elements from ballet or from any other modern dance…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Hayv Kahraman’s Persian Couple 1 & 2, with Footnotes, #64
The present painting brings attention to the emotional state of the female character, echoed by the tones and the tamed senses of depth and motion depicted in the work… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Tarek Al-Ghoussein’s D Series Untitled 9 , with Footnotes , #58
Sold for £5,625 in Apr 2015 ‘It’s about looking at a space – how one relates to a space and how that space defines a person too,’ says Palestinian-Kuwaiti artist, photographer and academic, Tarek al Ghoussain. Long considered amongst the most progressive and engaged photographers at work in the Middle East today, al Ghossein’s intellectually-engaged…
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07 works, Middle East Artists, The Art of War, Jan Saudek’s Silent witness, with Footnotes #104
As the angel passed through the destroyed city she bore witness to the inhumanity of man towards his brother and felt a great heaviness in her heart. The once vibrant streets, now shrouded in ash and sorrow… Please follow link for full post
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01 painting, Middle East Artists, The Art of War, Suleiman Mansour’s Gaza, with Footnotes #103
Sold for USD 43,750 on Mar 2019 Suleiman Mansour, together with Ismail Shammout are one of the two most important Palestinian artists who created a national identity for Palestinians over the years. Since the early 1970s, Mansour has been a champion and pioneer of the Palestinian artistic movement that has continuously pushed against the challenges…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Maher Attar’s Samar Baltaji, with Footnotes
Samar Baltaji is the one-legged mother in the photo, holding the hand of her maimed daughter, Nisrine, as they walked through a landscape of Beirut at war. In June 1985, during the war in the Palestinian camps — which pitted the Amal party against the Palestinians — he captured a photo that made the front…
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03 Works , Orientalist Artist, Unknown artist, Reclining Arab warrior woman odalisque with fruit, with footnotes #133
The image of a reclining Arab warrior woman as an odalisque, surrounded by fruit, is a captivating blend of strength, beauty, and sensuality… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Orientalist Art, Francesco Hayez’s The Desert Patrol, with footnotes #131
Desert Patrol, was a paramilitary force. Its main task was to guard tribe’s borders with its neighbors, as well as to provide protection.As the sun dips below the horizon, the sky transforms into a canvas of deep oranges and purples, casting a warm glow over the rugged desert landscape. Alma, with her keen eyes scanning…
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