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Lot 60A*

Ramses Younan
(Egypt, 1913-1966)
Untitled

2 June 2021, 16:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Ramses Younan (Egypt, 1913-1966)

Untitled
oil on canvas, framed
executed circa 1964-66
50 x 72cm (19 11/16 x 28 3/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance:
Property from a private collection, Beirut
Christies, Dubai: Modern & Contemporary Art, October 2015, lot 47

Notes:
Sylvie and Sonia Younan and Jean Colombain have kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work. This work will be included in the forthcoming Ramsès Younan Catalogue raisonné.


Younan was an artist, writer and political activist. In the late 1930s he co-founded the Egyptian surrealist group Art and Freedom. He believed in the revolutionary power of the imagination, and used the unconscious mind as a source for his art. Starting from an initial improvisation he would develop and refine the surface of his paintings to produce complex abstract compositions. Here forms seem to dissolve and merge into each other. The colours resemble those of an Egyptian earthen landscape.

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