CHAOUKI CHOUKINI (B. 1946, CHOUKINE)

Lot 30
09.11.2023 15:00UTC +00:00
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£ 30 000
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ID 1066148
Lot 30 | CHAOUKI CHOUKINI (B. 1946, CHOUKINE)
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£ 30 000 – 50 000
CHAOUKI CHOUKINI (B. 1946, CHOUKINE)

Petit prince, enfant de Gaza (Little prince, child of Gaza)

incised with the artist's signature, number and date and stamped with the foundry mark 'CHOUKINI 1⁄8 [sic] 2010' (on the base)

bronze

46 ½ x 20 1⁄8 x 13 1⁄8in. (118.1 x 51 x 33.4cm.)

Executed in 2010, this work is number one from an edition of six plus two artist's proofs





Provenance

Private Collection, France (acquired directly from the artist).

Anon. sale, Christie's Dubai, 30 October 2013, lot 126.

Claude Lemand, Paris.

Dr Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Collection, Beirut. (acquired from the above in 2014).

Thence by descent to the present owner.



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Claude Lemand, Chaouki Choukini, Le bois et le bronze, 2012.

Paris, Galerie Claude Lemand, The Lebanese Creativity: 1959-2012, 2012.

Paris, Galerie Claude Lemand, From East and West 2016: Paintings, Sculptures, Artist Books, 2016 (another from the edition exhibited).

Paris, Institut du monde arabe, Lumières du Liban. Art moderne et contemporain de 1950 à aujourd’hui, 2021-2022 (another from the edition exhibited).



Further details

Another from the edition was donated by Claude & France Lemand to Institut du monde arabe, Paris.
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