Tag: Adham Wanly
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Adham Wanly’s The singer, with Footnotes, #68
Adham Wanly (1908 in Alexandria, Egypt – 1959) was a painter who learnt in the atelier of the Italian Otorino Becchi 1932, then set up his own atelier with his brother Seif Wanly (above), and participated in many local and international exhibition specially Venice, São Paulo (Brasil), Alexandria Biennale. The Museum of Modern Art in Alexandria…
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01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Adham Wanly’s HUNGARIAN HORSE AT THE CIRCUS, with Footnotes – #5D
I couldn’t find the horse either!Adham Wanly (1908 in Alexandria, Egypt – 1959) was a painter who learnt in the atelier of the Italian Otorino Becchi 1932, then set up his own atelier with his brother Seif Wanly (above), and participated in many local and international exhibition specially Venice, São Paulo (Brasil), Alexandria Biennale. The Museum…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Adham Wanly’s Le monastère copte, désert de Mariut/ The Coptic Monastery, Mariut Desert, with Footnotes, #56
The late Pope Kyrillos VI established this Coptic Orthodox monastery in 1959 in commemoration of Saint Mina (Menas), his patron saint, in an isolated desert area very close to the archaeological site and historical city of Abu Mena in Mariut, near Alexandria, Egypt. Abu Mena is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and was once an…
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Adham Wanly, Nocturne Dabaka Dancers 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2i
The dabka, literally ‘stamping of the feet’ is a type of line dance popular at weddings and celebrations throughout the Middle East. In Wanly’s work the figures are gracefully depicted, appearing almost to float across the canvas. Adham Wanly (1908 in Alexandria, Egypt – 1959) was an Egyptian painter who learnt in the atelier of the…
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07 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 5
Hassan Hajjaj, B. 1961, MOROCCAN WINK, c. 2007 Metallic Lambda inset with kohl boxes mounted on board in artist’s frame 94 by 66cm.; 37 by 26in. Private collection Hassan Hajjaj (born Larache, Morocco in 1961) is a contemporary artist who lives and works between London, UK and Marrakech, Morocco. Hajjaj’s work is in the collections of the Brooklyn…
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