01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Nejib Belkhodja's Medina Between Two Storms, with Footnotes, #9

Nejib Belkhodja, 1933 - 2007

Medina Entre Deux Orages/ Medina Between Two Storms, c. 1982

Acrylic on canvas

96.5 by 194cm.; 38 by 76 1/4 in.

Private collection

Sold for 187,500 USD in April 2015

Medina is generally considered to be the "cradle of Islamic culture and civilization". The city is considered to be the second-holiest of three key cities in Islamic tradition, with Mecca and Jerusalem serving as the holiest and third-holiest cities respectively. More on Medina

Born in 1933, Nejib Belkhodja was the son of a Dutch opera singer and a Tunisian aristocrat of Turkish descent. The family lived in the medina of Tunis–a walled city within a city that was home to the rich and influential and often seen as the heartbeat of most North African cities. Even in the face of their multi-cultural backgrounds, Belkhodja’s parents took his Tunisian upbringing very serisously. After his father’s death, Belkhodja’s mother chose to remain in the medina and even converted to Islam herself. Belkhodja studied at the School of Fine Arts in Tunis and continued to live there until the 1960s.  With this upbringing, it is no surprise that the imagery of the medina became integral to Belkhodja’s artwork throughout his life.  More on Nejib Belkhodja

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