LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ink, pastel and watercolor on paper

Measurements:

14.76 in. (37.50 cm.) (height) by 21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Cairo, Syndicat des Journalists, Salim Al-Habschi “Mogli”, 1953 (no. 14). Cairo, Al Masar Gallery, Remembered Hussein Youssef Amin (1904 – 1984) Founder of the Contemporary Art Group Along with Late Artists, Members of the Group, 2010. Paris, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou; Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia; Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen; Liverpool, Tate Liverpool; Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Surrealism in Egypt: Art et Liberté 1938-1948, October 2016-August 2018.

Literature:

S. Bardaouil & T. Fellrath (eds.), Art et Liberté, Paris, 2016 (illustrated in colour, p. 161).

Provenance:

Hussein Youssef Amin, and thence by descent. Al Masar Gallery, Cairo, by whom acquired from the above.