LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on card

Measurements:

59.06 in. (150.00 cm.) (height) by 47.24 in. (120.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed "Ismael Fattah" and dated "1989" (lower left)

Exhibited:

London, Kufa Gallery, Various Artists, A Hommage to Jewad Selim, 1989He was also a member of the Baghdad Group of Modern Art, joined Al-Zawya in 1967,and was a founding member of the New Vision group (he his work at their first group show in 1969). Along with Selim, Fattah is regarded as one of Iraq's preeminent modern sculptors. Other than The Monument of the Martyr, his public commissions include the Monuments of Iraqi poets: al-Wasiti; al-Farabi, 1970–75; Lawyer's Union Façade, Ministry of Industry, 1967, and the Conference Palace, Baghdad, 1983