Tag: Suleiman Mansour
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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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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 Painting, Middle East Artists, The Art of War, Suleiman Mansour’s Untitled, The distruction of Palestine’s Olive trees, with Footnotes #76
Sold for 25,200 GBP in October 2022 Palestinian farmers know their land by the square-millimeter. To them, there is no such thing as “wild plants”: each sprout on their land is an expression of Palestinian life, as indigenous flora. They harvest the crops, take care of their trees, and walk along their vines with the…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Suleiman Mansour’s Motherhood, with Footnotes #69
Sold for 63,500 GBP in Oct 2023 An impassioned and tender depiction of the relationship between mother and child, Motherhood represents Mansour’s natural tendency towards familiar subjects, here both familial and national. With sincerity, the artist has rendered the ubiquitous narrative of motherhood with a localised style and custom; dressed in traditional robe, the woman holds her…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sliman Mansour’s ON THE EDGE, with footnotes
Estimate for 30,000 – 40,000 GBP in March 2020 Sliman Mansour ( born 1947), is a Palestinian painter, considered an important figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of intifada whose work captures to the cultural concept of sumud. Palestinian artist and scholar Samia Halaby has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Sliman Mansour’s ON THE EDGE, with Footnotes #33
Estimate for 30,000 – 40,000 GBP in March 2020 Sliman Mansour ( born 1947), is a Palestinian painter, considered an important figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of intifada whose work captures to the cultural concept of sumud. Palestinian artist and scholar Samia Halaby has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art…
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Sliman Mansour, ON THE EDGE, 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #33
Sliman Mansour is a Palestinian painter, considered an important figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of the intifada whose work gave visual expression to the cultural concept of sumud. Palestinian artist and scholar Samia Halaby has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art Movement and cites his important work as an…
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Suleiman Mansour, The Camel/Carrier of Hardships 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #24
Born in 1947, Birzeit, Palestine, Sliman Mansour studied fine art at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. He has held solo exhibitions in Ramallah, New York, Sharjah, Cairo, Gaza and Stavanger, Norway. His group exhibitions include Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow (1980), Palestinian Spring, Al-Hakawati Theatre, Jerusalem, 1985; New Visions, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts,…
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Sliman Mansour, FROM JERUSALEM 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #23
Born in 1947, Birzeit, Palestine, Sliman Mansour studied fine art at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. He has held solo exhibitions in Ramallah, New York, Sharjah, Cairo, Gaza and Stavanger, Norway. His group exhibitions include Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow (1980), Palestinian Spring, Al-Hakawati Theatre, Jerusalem, 1985; New Visions, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts,…
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Suleiman Mansour, And the Convoy Keeps Going 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 48
Sliman Mansour (born 1947), is a Palestinian painter, considered an important figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of the intifada whose work gave visual expression to the cultural concept of sumud. Palestinian artist and scholar Samia Halaby has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art Movement and cites his important…