01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Jamil Molaeb's Jerusalem, with Footnotes #66

Jamil Molaeb

Jerusalem, c. 2021

Oil on canvas

75 by 55 cm. 29 1/2 by 21 1/2 in.

Private collection

Sold for 9,450 GBP in October 2022

The city of Jerusalem was a subject that Jamil Molaeb returned to over and over. In a succession of almost identical canvases, the artist repeated, with very slight variations of themes and colours, small architectural and figural elements inherent to the city whilst hinting at universal symbols. This work was painted as a bird’s eye view featuring the Dome of the Rock surrounded by houses, fruits, animals and the city’s dwellers, in a dense intersection of stone and nature. The brushwork is organized in layers derived from the artist’s preparatory studies, and from which emerge a clear structure in which both the sacred element of the city as well as its more mundane aspects are revealed, rendering it universal. More on this painting

Jamil Molaeb (1948) was born in Baissour, Lebanon. He started his artistic career in the seventies, after training under renowned artists such as Chafic Abboud and Paul Guiragossian at the Fine Arts Institute of the Lebanese University. In 1967, 18 years old Jamil Molaeb won the 3rd prize of sculpture at 7th Salon of the Sursock Museum.

Craving further discoveries and exposure to the world, he spent a year studying in Algeria and, in 1984, enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program at New York’s Pratt Institute, to later obtain a doctorate in artistic education from Ohio State University.

Back in his native country in 1989, Molaeb started teaching art at the Lebanese University and the Lebanese American University of Beirut.

Since 1966 he has held different solo exhibitions in Lebanon, Algeria, France, Switzerland and the United States.

His work has been showcased in a number of Art Fairs: Art Abu-Dhabi, Beirut Art Fair, Art Dubai, Art14 London and La Biennale de Lyon.

Jamil Molaeb’s work has been exhibited at international museums such as the Gropius Bau Museum in Berlin, his paintings are acquired by public and private collections including The World Bank in Washington DC, the Institute de Monde Arabe in Paris and has been sold in international auctions. More on Jamil Molaeb

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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Nadia Saikali's Paysage de Montagne, with Footnotes #63

Nadia Saikali

Paysage de Montagne, c. 1995

Oil on canvas

120 by 100 cm. 47 1/4 by 39 1/2 in.

Private collection

Sold for 35,280 GBP in October 2022

“Too many people theorize and politicize about one's choice of colours in painting. This is not what I put forward in my works. After having focused my attention on the four elements mentioned in the Genesis: Earth- Fire- Water- Air, I now feel like expressing freely my joy to be alive and at peace. My main interests are the positive achievements of humankind, knowing that everything is related, that death is a proven certitude and that human wisdom has not yet been reached on Earth. Therefore I can claim out loudly that "Time for Peace has Come Now".” More on this painting

Nadia Saikali was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1936. She graduated from the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in 1956 and then studied at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière and L’École des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. She trained in the studios of Henri Goetz, Michel Durand and Donnot Seydoux. She lived in Glasgow for brief period before returning to Beirut in the mid-1950s. She participated in the annual Salon du Printemps at the UNESCO Palace and the Salon d’Automne at Sursock Museum in the long 1960s. She held solo exhibitions in Beirut at the John F. Kennedy Center (1967), the L’Orient newspaper headquarters (1970), the Goethe Institute (1972) and Contact Art Gallery (1972). In 1967, she participated in the São Paulo Biennale. She permanently moved to France in 1979 amid civil war. Her work features in the collections of the Sursock Museum, Beirut; Society of Lebanese Architects and Engineers, Beirut; The Nadia Tueni Foundation, Beit Mery, Lebanon; The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York; The City of Paris, the National Fund of Contemporary Art, Paris and The Royal Institute Galleries, London. More on Nadia Saikali

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