FAEQ HASSAN (IRAQI, B. 1914)

Women in a Market

Details

FAEQ HASSAN (IRAQI, B. 1914)
Women in a Market
signed and dated in Arabic (lower right); inscribed in Arabic (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
13¾ x 22in. (35 x 56cm.)
Painted in 1961

Provenance

Private collection of a Christian family that migrated from Iraq

Sale Room Notice

Please note this lot may not be subjected to the 5 Importation Duty if purchased by a UAE resident.

Lot Essay

Faeq Hassan's work went through a number of phases from impressionism to cubism, thence to abstract and then to expressionism, and finally to a form of realism. This example of work is quite a rare sample of his earlier work.

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