Lot 105: Ali Hassan , b. 1956 Horse in the Desert acrylic on canvas

signed and dated 08 ; signed and dated 08 on the reverse acrylic on canvas

150 by 200cm.; 59 by 78 3/4 in.

The Artist

' At the beginning I used all the 28 Arabic letters, but after being with letters for a while I thought to present the place and the flexibility of it through a single letter which is the letter Nun, because I have an inner fascination with it. Furthermore to reveal the value of it from different aspects and to prove that a human can use one letter all his life because of its strength and the position of the Arabic letters.'
Ali Hassan cited in: Exhibition Catalogue, Bonn, Kunstmuseum, Languages of the Desert, 2005, p. 144