Dia Azzawi (Iraq, born 1939) Human States mixed media on paper, framed signed and dated lower right, executed in 1975 50 x 40cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/4in). Fußnoten Provenance: Property from a private collection, Amman Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner Exhibited: Dia Azzawi, Halat Insaniyya (Human States), National Gallery of Baghdad, 1975 (the Artists last exhibition in Iraq before his migration to London) "I went to the army in the seventies and it was after that that I decided to leave Iraq because of the bad experiences I had. For example I had very close friends of mine fighting on the other side. We were like brothers fighting each other. Some of the work I did before I left Iraq was specifically a cry [against] he war in the north.... to tell you a story of how much [of a cry it was], I was sitting with Rafa al-Nasiri and Ismail Fattah [at an exhibition], and somebody came up [to one of the works] and asked us who the artist was. I said that I am, and he asked, what kind of work is this? Why do you have these names here, writing that is not readable? So I told him I was in the north, in the area where the fighting of the Kurds was going on. Suddenly his eyes started blinking, and I thought he was about to cry, and he said 'Allah yuhafdhak, ma'salaama' [God protect you, goodbye], which gave me a hint that this guy had lost his son or his brother in the war." - Dia Azzawi
Dia Azzawi (Iraq, born 1939) Human States mixed media on paper, framed signed and dated lower right, executed in 1975 50 x 40cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/4in). Fußnoten Provenance: Property from a private collection, Amman Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner Exhibited: Dia Azzawi, Halat Insaniyya (Human States), National Gallery of Baghdad, 1975 (the Artists last exhibition in Iraq before his migration to London) "I went to the army in the seventies and it was after that that I decided to leave Iraq because of the bad experiences I had. For example I had very close friends of mine fighting on the other side. We were like brothers fighting each other. Some of the work I did before I left Iraq was specifically a cry [against] he war in the north.... to tell you a story of how much [of a cry it was], I was sitting with Rafa al-Nasiri and Ismail Fattah [at an exhibition], and somebody came up [to one of the works] and asked us who the artist was. I said that I am, and he asked, what kind of work is this? Why do you have these names here, writing that is not readable? So I told him I was in the north, in the area where the fighting of the Kurds was going on. Suddenly his eyes started blinking, and I thought he was about to cry, and he said 'Allah yuhafdhak, ma'salaama' [God protect you, goodbye], which gave me a hint that this guy had lost his son or his brother in the war." - Dia Azzawi
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