ABD AL-HADI EL-GAZZAR (1925, ALEXANDRIA - 1966, CAIRO)

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Lot 62 | ABD AL-HADI EL-GAZZAR (1925, ALEXANDRIA - 1966, CAIRO)
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ABD AL-HADI EL-GAZZAR (1925, ALEXANDRIA - 1966, CAIRO)

The Damned Son of a Bitch

signed and dated in Arabic; signed 'A.EL GAZZAR 1951. [sic]' (lower left)

pen, India ink and red ink on paper

24 x 18 5⁄8in. (60.8 x 47.2cm.)

Executed in 1953





Provenance

The artist's estate, Cairo.



Literature

L. Karnouk, Modern Egyptian Art. The Emergence of a National Style, Cairo 1988, p. 45 (illustrated; titled Poem; dated early 1950s’).

A. Roussillon, C. Roussillon, Abdel Hadi al-Gazzar: une peinture egyptienne, Cairo 1990, p. 21 (illustrated, p. 195).

Al-Ahram Weekly, 2000 (illustrated).

Dr. S. Sharouny, Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar, Cairo 2007 p. 77 (illustrated in colour; dated 1951).

A. Al Hindi, Abdul Hadi El-Gazzar: Reading into the Consciousness of People, Cairo 2010 (illustrated in colour, p. 130).

P. Kane, The Politics of Art in Modern Egypt: Aesthetics, Ideology and Nation-Building, London 2013, no. 36 (illustrated, p. 115).

A. Shalem, Exceeding Realism: Utopian Modern Art on the Nile and Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar’s Surrealistic Drawings, Durham 2010, p. 584, no. 5 (illustrated in colour, p. 587).

V. Didier, Dr. H. Rashwan, Abd El-Hady El- Gazzar: The Complete Works, vol. II, Drawings, Paris 2023, no. D257 (illustrated in colour, p. 193).
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