01 Painting, Middle East Artists, The Art of War, FAIK HASSAN'S ARABIAN HORSEMEN, with Footnotes #82

Faiq Hassan 1914 - 1992 Iraqi

ARABIAN HORSEMEN

Oil on canvas

63 by 75.5 cm.; 24¾ by 29¾ in.

Private collection

Estimate for 7,000 - 9,000 GBP in Mar 2020

While Faiq Hassan’s painting style was influenced by his studies in Europe, he was dedicated to celebrating Iraqi national pride and worked towards developing a local visual language. His cubist works such as Bedouin Tent relay narratives of daily life from the Iraqi peasants living along the Tigris and Euphrates. In this work, two figures are in a tent and surrounded by objects, including the traditional dallah and finjan (coffee pot and cups). The work, rendered in a fragmented fashion is multifaceted, allowing for various viewpoints into the intimate scene. Hassan graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1938 after receiving a government scholarship. He returned to Baghdad upon completion of his studies and founded the Department of Painting at the Institute of Fine Arts. In 1940, he started the artist group Société Primitive, which in 1959, was renamed the Pioneers Group and in 1967, he founded the Zawiya art group. Hassan has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in Baghdad and in 1965 was part of the Iraqi Art group show in Beirut. He was awarded the Golden Prize of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Iraq. His work is in numerous public collections, including Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha; and the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman. More on Faik Hussain

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