Lot 31
  • 31

MARWAN KASSAB BACHI | Untitled

Estimate
65,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Marwan
  • Untitled 
  • signed and dated Marwan Nov. Dec. '08 and Jan.'09
  • oil on canvas
  • 114 by 162cm.; 44 3/4 by 63 3/4 in.

Provenance

BCA Gallery Limited, London
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Condition

Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is no restoration apparent when viewed under the UV light. Colour: The catalogue illustration is fairly accurate. The overall whites and greys tend more towards purples, pinks and lilacs and the yellows are more brownish yellow in the original work.
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Catalogue Note

"He once said to me, 'I paint souls.' Marwan’s faces became landscapes, worlds that we could enter and let ourselves be free to dream within […]. His faces, in particular, are an examination of the entire history of portraiture: from discombobulated heads to abstract bodies, from caricature to surrealist wonder. These faces embody and are in dialogue with a genealogy of composition that stretches from the Egyptian pharaohs to the Greco-Romans to the tight close-ups of the digital era. For Marwan, the face is the most expressive of all landscapes; it is a universe whose emotion requires continual unfolding." Omar Kholeif cited in: Omer Kholeif, 'Marwan Kassab-Bachi (1934-2016)', Artforum Online, 7 December 2016.