Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 440

Rachid Koraichi
(Algeria, born 1947)
Amulets total: 30 x 50cm (11 13/16 x 19 11/16in) each: 30 x 16cm (11 13/16 x 6 5/16in)

8 April 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £15,000

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Islamic and Indian Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

Rachid Koraichi (Algeria, born 1947)

Amulets
steel talismans (3)
each talisman signed and dated "R.KORAICHI 92" in English (reverse), executed in 1992
total: 30 x 50cm (11 13/16 x 19 11/16in) each: 30 x 16cm (11 13/16 x 6 5/16in)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Property of a private collector, UK

Exhibited:
Meditation, Madrasah Ibn Youssef, Marrakesh, Morocco, 1997

"I have always wanted people to see and appreciate my work in a universal manner. By this, I mean the understanding of my work in terms of the symbols, signs, marks – even vibrations – which have always been the common language of mankind and of which many examples remain in the cave paintings and rock art that is our shared inheritance since the dawn of time. Such art is not difficult to read since the underlying language is easily decipherable to all. We read this 'writing' in the same way that the men and women who weave carpets read their symbols, or again, like tattoos, or the signs traced on pottery, all of which tell us so much about other civilizations.

I add some of my own offerings to the crucible of signs that already exist, in the hope of enlarging, in some small way, the great repertory of symbols present around the world." - Rachid Koraichi

Additional information

Bid now on these items

Francis Newton Souza(India, 1924-2002)Untitled (Head)