Details
DIA AZZAWI (IRAQI, B. 1939)
We Are Not Seen, But, Corpses (The Massacre of Sabra and Shatila)
each: titled in Arabic (lower margin); signed, titled, numbered and dated 'P.P.1 We are not seen but corpses Azzawi 1983' (lower margin)
eight etchings and one lithograph on paper
each: 393⁄8 x 271⁄2in. (100 x 70cm.)
Executed in 1983, this is printer's proof number one from an edition of sixty plus two printer's proofs
Provenance
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1995.Exhibited
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation, Sky Over the East, 2014 p. 44 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 45).
Doha, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art and Museums Gallery Al Riwaq, Dia Al-Azzawi: A Retrospective, From 1963 until Tomorrow, 2016-2017 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, pp. 260, 262-264).
Paris, Institut Du Monde Arabe, Dia Al-Azzawi: Sabra et Chatila, 2018 (another from the edition exhibited).Post Lot Text
A rare full set of Dia Azzawi's We Are not Seen, But Corpses in its original presentation case.
Another set from the edition is part of the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE.
Details
DIA AZZAWI (IRAQI, B. 1939)
We Are Not Seen, But, Corpses (The Massacre of Sabra and Shatila)
each: titled in Arabic (lower margin); signed, titled, numbered and dated 'P.P.1 We are not seen but corpses Azzawi 1983' (lower margin)
eight etchings and one lithograph on paper
each: 393⁄8 x 271⁄2in. (100 x 70cm.)
Executed in 1983, this is printer's proof number one from an edition of sixty plus two printer's proofs
Provenance
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1995.Exhibited
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation, Sky Over the East, 2014 p. 44 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 45).
Doha, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art and Museums Gallery Al Riwaq, Dia Al-Azzawi: A Retrospective, From 1963 until Tomorrow, 2016-2017 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, pp. 260, 262-264).
Paris, Institut Du Monde Arabe, Dia Al-Azzawi: Sabra et Chatila, 2018 (another from the edition exhibited).Post Lot Text
A rare full set of Dia Azzawi's We Are not Seen, But Corpses in its original presentation case.
Another set from the edition is part of the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE.
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