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Lot 31: OMAR EL-NAGDI (EGYPT, BORN 1931) Portrait de jeune fille signed O. El Na

Est: £5,000 GBP - £7,000 GBP
BonhamsLondon, United KingdomApril 18, 2018

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Description

OMAR EL-NAGDI (EGYPT, BORN 1931) Portrait de jeune fille signed O. El Nagdi, and dated 1969 (lower left), executed in 1969 45 x 50cm (17 11/16 x 19 11/16in).

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Provenance

Provenance: Property from the private collection of H.E Ambassador Francine Henrich Omar El Nagdi was born in Egypt in 1931. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo in 1953 and continued his training in Russia and Italy, graduating from the Academy of Venice in 1965. He held his first exhibition in Cairo in 1950. An active member of Cairo’s art community, El Nagdi was a member of the Liberal Artist’s group headed by Taha Hussein, and formed the Egyptian Mosaics Group in 1964. He received awards at three Alexandria biennials in 1966, 1968, and 1974. Artist, philosopher, and musician Omar El Nagdi is renowned for his series of works based on singular forms of calligraphy. Initiated in the 1960s and 1970s, El Nagdi’s practice creates rhythmic abstractions based on the repetition of the Arabic numeral for ‘one’ (wahed), which shares its form with the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, Alef. With minimal form, El Nagdi builds a pulsating and multi-dimensional composition that symbolises the indivisible nature of the divine. The multi-disciplinary artist works in oil painting, watercolour, sculpture, etching, and mosaic. Over the course of his career, El Nagdi has refused to commit to one particular artistic style and identifies his inspiration as the diverse cultures of rural Egypt and Cairo’s popular urban district of Bab Al She’reya. His work is held in private collections and museums all over the world. Omar El Nagdi lives and works in Cairo.

Auction Details

Egypt's Awakening & Modern & Contemporary Middle East Art

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Bonhams
April 18, 2018, 03:00 PM BST

101 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1S 1SR, UK