LAILA SHAWA (1940, GAZA - 2022, LONDON)
LAILA SHAWA (1940, GAZA - 2022, LONDON)
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LAILA SHAWA (1940, GAZA - 2022, LONDON)

Summer Dreams (Sahara Series)

細節
LAILA SHAWA (1940, GAZA - 2022, LONDON)
Summer Dreams (Sahara Series)
signed and dated 'SHAWA 08' (lower left); signed and dated 'SHAWA 2008' (on the reverse)
acrylic and 23.5 carat gold leaf on canvas, in artist's frame
57 ¾ x 40 1⁄8in. (146.6 x 102cm.)
Executed in 2008
來源
The artist.
Dr Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Collection, Beirut (acquired from the above in February 2013).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
出版
S. Sultan Al Hashemi, ’Resistance to normalisation in the Gulf’, in Assafir Al-Arabi, issue 484, January 2022 (in Arabic).

榮譽呈獻

Marie-Claire Thijsen
Marie-Claire Thijsen Head of Sale, Associate Specialist

拍品專文

Executed in 2008, Laila Shawa’s Summer Dreams (Sahara Series) is a beautiful mesmerising depiction of geometric patterns rendered in rich and warm hues of acrylic and gold leaf. Shawa’s style, what she herself regards as ‘Islamo-pop’ art, appropriates key elements existing from the classical traditions of the Hellenic and Sasanian times to complicate and elaborate upon the artistic achievements of the Islamic world.

Being born in Gaza, Palestine in 1940 and as an artist who lived and worked between the United Kingdom and the United States, her concern was to reflect the harsh realities of community persecution. Shawa received formal art training at the Leonardo da Vinci School in Cairo and the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Rome. Additionally, she pursued studies at the School of Seeing in Salzburg, founded in 1953 by the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka with an endeavor to bring around humanist principles after the harrowing aftermath of the World Wars that wrought Europe beyond recognition.

Summer Dreams (Sahara Series) creates a rippled form on the surface that stresses the importance of unity and order. By composing unbalanced interlacing of multisided polygons and six-pointed stars, she refuses to adhere to the principles of geometry, suggesting an infinite growth of freedom. Her art continues to be exhibited internationally and features in the collections of the National Galleries of Jordan and Malaysia, as well as The British Museum, London.

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