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Lot 46: Forest

Est: $20,000 USD - $30,000 USD
Christie'sDubai, United Arab EmiratesApril 30, 2008

Item Overview

Description

Layla Al-Attar (Iraqi 1940-1993)
Forest
signed and dated in Arabic (lower right)
oil and encaustic on paper on canvas
30½ x 58½in. (77.5 x 148.5cm.)
Painted in 1972

Artist or Maker

Notes

The primordial forest is a recurrent motif in the work of both Layla and her sister Suad Al-Attar's work, and refer to a magical primitive world in the distant past, the world of Gilgamesh of ancient Mesopotamian legend and the Garden of Eden, also believed to be in Mesoptamia. The distortions of space and light heighten the sense theirs being unreal worlds.

Auction Details

International Modern and Contemporary Art

by
Christie's
April 30, 2008, 12:00 PM EST

Emaar Business Park, Sheikh Zayed Road Building 2, 1st Floor, Office 7, PO Box 48800, Dubai, AE