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Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar

Untitled (Study for a Carpet)

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April 30, 01:36 PM GMT

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Description

Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar

(1925 - 1966)


Untitled (Study for a Carpet)

signed and dated El Gazzar, 1940 in Arabic (lower left); signed Elgazzar in English (to the right)

watercolour, India ink and collage on paper laid on card

37 by 56 cm. 14 ½ by 22 in.

framed: 51 by 69 cm. 20 by 27 ⅛ in.

Executed in 1940. 

Please note that this work is additionally signed Elgazzar in English (to the right); the medium is watercolour, India ink and collage on paper laid on card; and the unframed dimensions are 37 by 56 cm. 14 ½ by 22 in., and not as stated in the PDF catalogue.

Estate of the Artist

Probably: Cairo, Service de la Jeunesse, Exposition de l'Art Contemporain (Second Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Group), 1-8 May 1948 (no. 72, titled Tapis)

Valerie Didier Hess and Dr Hussam Rashwan (eds.), Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar: Drawings, Paris 2023, no. D1, p. 90, illustrated in colour