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JACOB EL HANANI | MISPARIM

Lot Closed

March 10, 05:07 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

JACOB EL HANANI

b. 1947

MISPARIM


signed and dated 1981

ink on paper

Sheet: 17¾ by 17¾ in. (45 by 45 cm.)

Framed: 20¾ by 20¾ in. (52.7 by 52.7 cm.)

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

“The chief interest of El Hanani’s drawings lies in the micrographic plane, in the tiny but discrete images out of which the abstract pattern is ‘woven’. The ‘cartoon’ is in the mind of the artist- from forty years of graphic experience, he knows, intuitively how the pattern will look when the drawing is finished”

(Arthur C. Danto, Small Wonders: The Art of Jacob El Hanani, Acquavella Galleries, New York 2015, p. 10)