LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on board

Measurements:

20.87 in. (53.00 cm.) (height) by 22.05 in. (56.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed "Shaker Hassan Al Said" in Arabic (lower right), and dated "1955" in Arabic (lower left)

Condition:

framed

Provenance:

Collection of Jewad Selim, acquired directly from Shaker Hassan Al Said in 1951;,and thence by descent to Jewad Selim's wife, Lorna, and daughters, Miriam and Zaineb SelimAcquired from Shakir Hassan by Jewad Selim, it is hard to think of a work with better or one that closer to the very heart of the Baghdad movement than the present work. Given by student to teacher, cherished by him and his family for close to half a century, Al Said's Cubist Cockerel can truly be described as "best of breed"