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Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar

Untitled (Study for a Carpet)

Lot closes

April 30, 01:30 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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7,000 GBP

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Lot Details

Description

Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar

(1925 - 1966)


Untitled (Study for a Carpet)

signed and dated El Gazzar, 1940 in Arabic (lower left)

watercolour, India ink and collage on paper

35.5 by 53 cm. 13 ¾ by 20 ⅞ in.

framed: 51 by 69 cm. 20 by 27 ⅛ in.

Executed in 1940. 

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