Lot 572: Fellaha

Fellaha oil on canvas, framed executed circa 1954 44 x 26cm (17 5/16 x 10 1/4in).

195444x 26cm

: Property from a private collection, Egypt

Mariam Abdul Aleem obtained a diploma from the Higher Institute of Art Education in Cairo (1954), M.A. in graphic art from the University of South California (1957) and Ph.D. in history of art from the University of Hilwan in Cairo. She was a a professor of design and graphics at the University of Alexandria. A prominent Arab painter, graphic artist and engraver, Abdul Aleem stresses the aesthetic instead of the photographic awareness of her subjects.Art for her is a kind of spiritual expression where signs make up the core of her compositions that she frames with organic naturalistic shapes. She takes up environmental topics in her work thus mixing between artistic expressionism and ecological issues in carefully balanced arrangements.