Ahmed Morsi

Private Collection, Egypt

Conditin: This work is in good condition. Some minor craquelure to the painting alongside the right, lower and left edges. Two very faint hairlines craquelure across the central horizontal axis. A 1cm minor canvas irregularity to the lower section. The canvas is slack and could benefit being restrerched. Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are accurate, with the overall tonality being softer and less red in the original work.
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One of the forgotten modernist masters of Egypt, Sotheby’s is honoured to be selling a rare work by Ahmed Morsi. The current work is a great example of Morsi’s oeuvre. The artist manipulates the human figure; represented through his characteristic anthropomorphic  triangular heads, rendering the viewer with an eerie sense of isolation and mysticism. Originally a poet, with a keen interest on the works of C.P Cavafy, a fellow Alexandrian, Morsi used his art to convey the unrequited search for the soul and spirituality of the 7000 years old Egyptian tradition. Examples of his works can be found internationally in museum collections and foundations across the world, such as Fundacion Banco Santander (Madrid), Santander, Madrid; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, and the Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah).