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Shakir Hassan Al Said (Iraq, 1925-2004) Three Black and White Compositions 1. 38 x 34 cm 2. 25 x 31 cm 3. 38 x 17 cm image 1

Shakir Hassan Al Said (Iraq, 1925-2004) Three Black and White Compositions 1. 38 x 34 cm 2. 25 x 31 cm 3. 38 x 17 cm image 2

Lot 83

Shakir Hassan Al Said
(Iraq, 1925-2004)
Three Black and White Compositions 1. 38 x 34 cm 2. 25 x 31 cm 3. 38 x 17 cm

The Art of Lebanon Part II and Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art

12 October 2016, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

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Shakir Hassan Al Said (Iraq, 1925-2004)

Three Black and White Compositions
acrylic on paper, in three parts
each work signed and dated 1961, the horizontal image inscribed "exhibited by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra at the General Retrospective Exhibition, 1961" (verso)
1. 38 x 34 cm 2. 25 x 31 cm 3. 38 x 17 cm

Footnotes

PHASE III: POST ABSTRACTION: BEYOND THE "ONE DIMENSION"

"Ultimately Al Said's experiments in time and space led to what he termed "the experience of environmental truth in art." As a new form of realizing the One-Dimension, istilham al-sahnah al-jidariyah, seeking inspiration from or integrating "the wall" in art, became Al Said's last obsession with expressing the collapse of time into space until his death in 2004, as the result of his second clinical depression that left him debilitated during the last year of his life. Al Said's work is a testimony to the depth of theoretical and historical difference (localness) despite of surface "global" visual similarities."
- Dr Nada Shabout

In his final phase Shakir Hassan became increasingly fascinated with the numerological aspects of Arab calligraphy. In his search for the mystical dimensions of numerological vocabulary his compositions become terser, more minimal, orderly and distinctly less painterly. Taking on a meditative, almost mathematical tone, we find in his work the advent of "post abstraction", a movement away from the "wall art" of the One Dimension period and a move towards purity of expression, with a singular aesthetic and conceptual aim.

Provenance:
Property from the family collection of Shakir Hassan Al-Said

Exhibited:
1961, General Retrospective Exhibition of Shakir Hassan Al-Said, House of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, 1961
1966, Solo Exhibition of Shakir Hassan Al-Said, House of the Artist, 1966

Published:
Nizar Selim, Contemporary Iraqi Art, Sartec 1977, Milano, Page 116

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