Samia A. Halaby

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner's father in the 1970s
Thence by Descent 

Maymanah Farhat, Samia Halaby: Five Decades of Painting and Innovation, London, 2014, p. 43

Condition: This work is in very good condition. Upon closer inspection, few minute pinhole size water or paint stains to the lower section of the work, all inherent with the artist's creative process. No signs of restoration under the UV light. Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are accurate, with the blue being slightly lighter in the original work.
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"Although the critics traditionally have tried to separate the two from each other, to me, abstraction is about reality. But reality is not necessarily a photographic image. If you take 10 seconds turning your head from left to right, all the shapes and forms that you see cannot be captured in a photograph or a realistic image. When you walk down the street in New York, where it is so busy, to preserve your life you have learnt to look in certain ways and your eyes jump from blocks of colour, that is the rhythm you see in my paintings and explains where I place the squares."

Samia Halaby