
Noor Soussi
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Provenance:
Property from a private collection, England
Formerly property from the collection of the renowned Iraqi architect Said Ali Madhloom (1921-2017)
Acquired directly from the artist by the above
"The city of Ghazi al Saudi , today's Baghdad, is the
actual place implanted in a time that goes back some eight hundred
years. Al Wasiti's illustrations of Maqamat al Hariri have been a
constant inspiration for him, not only in his smaller canvases and
ceramics, but also in his large frescoes, where he employs the old
Arab gold, blue and red with black outlines in the representation of
city-scapes translated into a modern idiom"
- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra