FARID BELKAHIA (1934, MARRAKECH - 2014, MARRAKECH) - photo 1
FARID BELKAHIA (1934, MARRAKECH - 2014, MARRAKECH) - photo 2
FARID BELKAHIA (1934, MARRAKECH - 2014, MARRAKECH) - photo 3

FARID BELKAHIA (1934, MARRAKECH - 2014, MARRAKECH)

Lot 20
06.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1504799
Lot 20 | FARID BELKAHIA (1934, MARRAKECH - 2014, MARRAKECH)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
FARID BELKAHIA (1934, MARRAKECH - 2014, MARRAKECH)
Somalia 2
titled, inscribed and dated ‘SOMALIA 1994’ (on the reverse)
natural pigments on skin and sand on panel
81 7/8 x 45 5/8 x 1/2 in. (208 x 116 x 1.3cm.)
Executed in 1994




Provenance

Private Collection.
Anon. sale, Compagnie Marocaine des œuvres et objets d'art Casablanca, 22 June 2022, lot 69.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

R. Benchemsi, ''Farid Belkahia: Eroticism in Malhoun,'' Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, vol. 2001, issue 13-14, May 2001 (illustrated in colour, p. 81).



Exhibited

Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe, recontres africaines, 1994 (illustrated in colour, p. 24).
Nice, Musèe d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporian, Farid Belkahia, 1999-2000 (illustrated in colour, p. 47). This work later travelled to Paris, Musèe national des arts d’Afrique et d’Oceanie.



Further details

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Fondation Farid Belkahia.
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