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Item Ships From: Africa
"Macbeth Stagecraft II" Pastel on Paper 10" x 12" in by Salah Abdel Kerim
By Salah Abdel Kerim
Located in Culver City, CA
"Macbeth Stagecraft II" Pastel on Paper 10" x 12" in by Salah Abdel Kerim
Born in Fayoum to a big family of 5 brothers and sisters. In 1938 he meets the famous painter Hussein Bikar and he becomes his student in the Faculty of Arts in Qena. He remained much attached to his professor all through his life. In 1940 he meets Hussein Youssef Amin and the Group of Contemporary Art at the secondary school of Farouk First in Abasya district in Cairo when he was introduced to surrealism for the first time. In 1943 he becomes a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts and graduates with excellence and honors in 1947. In 1948 he becomes an assistant to the interior decoration section at the FFA. He is then sent to a mission in Paris in 1952 and he becomes a student to Paul Colin and A.Marie Cassandre for publicity and theatre design. He then moves to Rome in 1956 to study cinema design. In 1957 he received the international prize in painting from San Vito Romano, Italy, and obtains his Ph.D. from Centro Sperimental di Cinemato Grafia. Back in Egypt in 1958, he is appointed professor at the FFA where he started experimenting with his masterpieces sculptures in wrote iron...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Saint” Figurative Oil Painting 53" x 27.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Saint” Figurative Oil Painting 53" x 27.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Arabian Nights" Figurative Painting 9" x 12" inch (1997) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Arabian Nights" Figurative Painting 9" x 12" inch (1997) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Emancipation, 1991
Ink on Paper.
Signed & dated
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Abd Elmalak’s diverse portfolio exemplifies not only his versatility, but perhaps even more importantly his unique ability to blend the conventional and unconventional in thoughtful harmony, which esteemed Modernist and author Hussein Bicar (1913-2002) deemed a “highly intelligent duality between the kinetics of the universe and its stillness.”
The selection of Abd Elmalak’s drawings is reflective of a compositional method that is based on free-flowing and distinct lines and contours that he uses to amalgamate caricature-Esque female figures with monuments and landmarks from his travels, script, animals, and natural elements into interconnected and unified tapestries. His selected paintings explore themes of entrapment, companionship, oppression, emancipation, and faith, which he explores and animate through his demure and virtuous women subjects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Abstract Visage VII" Portrait Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
By Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Visage VII" Portrait Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
ABOUT
A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Farmer" Portrait Oil Painting 16" x 12" inch by Shaaban Zaki
By Shaaban Zaki
Located in Culver City, CA
"Farmer" Portrait Oil Painting 16" x 12" inch by Shaaban Zaki
circa 1930
Signed.
Shaaban Zaki came from a lower-middle-class family who was mostly government employees, but he was...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Africa - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Abstract Visage V" Portrait Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
By Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Visage V" Portrait Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
ABOUT
A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Abstract Composition" Painting Pastel 8" x 24" inch by Mohammed Ismail
By Mohammed Ismail
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition" Painting Pastel 8" x 24" inch by Mohammed Ismail
1986
Signed and Dated
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mohammed Ismail (1936-1993)
Dr. Mo...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Macbeth Stagecraft I" Watercolor on cartoon 10" x 14" in by Salah Abdel Kerim
By Salah Abdel Kerim
Located in Culver City, CA
"Macbeth Stagecraft I" Watercolor on cartoon 10" x 14" in by Salah Abdel Kerim
Born in Fayoum to a big family of 5 brothers and sisters. In 1938 he meets the famous painter Hussein Bikar and he becomes his student in the Faculty of Arts in Qena. He remained much attached to his professor all through his life. In 1940 he meets Hussein Youssef Amin and the Group of Contemporary Art at the secondary school of Farouk First in Abasya district in Cairo when he was introduced to surrealism for the first time. In 1943 he becomes a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts and graduates with excellence and honors in 1947. In 1948 he becomes an assistant to the interior decoration section at the FFA. He is then sent to a mission in Paris in 1952 and he becomes a student to Paul Colin and A.Marie Cassandre for publicity and theatre design. He then moves to Rome in 1956 to study cinema design. In 1957 he received the international prize in painting from San Vito Romano, Italy, and obtains his Ph.D. from Centro Sperimental di Cinemato Grafia. Back in Egypt in 1958, he is appointed professor at the FFA where he started experimenting with his masterpieces sculptures in wrote iron...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
"Portrait Turquoise” Oil Painting 63" x 47" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait Turquoise” Oil Painting 63" x 47" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Pastel on paper. Framed.
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Cactus in Beige" Oil Painting 27.5" x 24" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cactus in Beige" Oil Painting 27.5" x 24" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood and finished school. In 1973...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bonsai" Landscape Painting 8" x 12" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Bonsai" Landscape Painting 8" x 12" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Techniques
Bakhoum often paints on canvases that have been prepared with various materials. She generally make...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Glass, Pastel, Mixed Media
"Oasis Shore" Painting 8" x 18" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Oasis Shore" Painting 8" x 18" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Techniques
Bakhoum often paints on canvases that have been prepared with various materials. She generally makes use ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Glass, Pastel, Mixed Media
"Marine Life" Figurative Oil Painting 41 "x 79" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
By Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Marine Life" Figurative Oil Painting 41 "x 79" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
ARTIST BIO:
Zamzami was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Minya, having garnered acclaim in his nativ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Girl with Fish" Figurative Painting Acrylic and Inks 16" x 12"in by Ahmed Saber
By Ahmed Saber
Located in Culver City, CA
"Girl with Fish" Figurative Painting Acrylic and Inks 16" x 12"in by Ahmed Saber
Comes framed as shown on second photo
AHMED SABER - BIO
Ahmed Saber is an Egyptian artist based in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Africa - Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Lady in Waiting I" Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 35" in by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lady in Waiting I" Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 35" in by Yousra Hafad
Yousra Hafad is a young artist who excels in portraiture and particularly the me...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Africa - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Abstract Composition 4" Abstract Oil Painting 20" x 16" inch by Youssef Sida
By Youssef Sida
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition 4" Abstract Oil Painting 20" x 16" inch by Youssef Sida
Signed
Circa 1989
Youssef Sida
1922-1994
Born in 1922 in Damietta, and in 1945 he got his degree fro...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Abstract Composition II" Abstract Painting 16" x 20" inch by Leila Izzet
By Leila Izzet
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition II" Abstract Painting 16" x 20" inch by Leila Izzet
Leila Izzet has been exhibiting her paintings for over 40 years. A great lover of animals, she was first kn...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Africa - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Abstract Composition" Painting Pastel on Paper 16" x 22" in by Mohammed Ismail
By Mohammed Ismail
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition" Painting Pastel on Paper 16" x 22" in by Mohammed Ismail
1986
Signed and Dated
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mohammed Ismail (1936-1993)
Dr. Mohamed Ismail was born in...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Cats and Coffins" Oil Painting 15" x 17" inch (1971) by Zohra Efflatoun
By Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cats and Coffins" Oil Painting 15" x 17" inch (1971) by Zohra Efflatoun
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister Inji was a renowned painter from Cairo. Whereas Zohra, who lived in Alexandria, studied under the patronage of the Alexandrian pioneer painters Adham and Seif Wanly...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Seated Woman with Plant" Oil Painting 31" x 24" inch by Mohammed Ismail
By Mohammed Ismail
Located in Culver City, CA
"Seated Woman with Plant" Oil Painting 31" x 24" inch by Mohammed Ismail
1991
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mohammed Ismail (1936-1993)
Dr. Mohamed Ismail was born in 1936 in Zagazig in Egy...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Abstract Triptych I" Oil Painting 25.5" x 55" inch by Mohammed Ismail
By Mohammed Ismail
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Triptych I" Oil Painting 25.5" x 55" inch by Mohammed Ismail
1991
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mohammed Ismail (1936-1993)
Dr. Mohamed Ismail was born in 1936 in Zagazig in Egypt...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Le Chat V" Oil Painting 20" x 14" inch (1971) by Zohra Efflatoun
By Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Le Chat V" Oil Painting 20" x 14" inch (1971) by Zohra Efflatoun
signed & dated
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister Inji was a renowned painter from Cairo. Whereas Zohra, who lived in Alexandria, studied under the patronage of the Alexandrian pioneer painters Adham and Seif Wanly...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Plateau" Oil Painting 14" x 18" inch by AHMED ZAGHLOUL
Located in Culver City, CA
"Plateau" Oil Painting 14" x 18" inch by AHMED ZAGHLOUL
Category
20th Century Abstract Africa - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Cairo Street Corner" Oil Painting 39" x 28" inch (1974) by Zohra Efflatoun
By Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cairo Street Corner" Oil Painting 39" x 28" inch (1974) by Zohra Efflatoun
signed & dated
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister Inji was a renowned painter from Cairo. Whereas Zohra, who lived in Alexandria, studied under the patronage of the Alexandrian pioneer painters Adham and Seif Wanly...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Camouflage" Abstract Painting Oil on Cartoon 20" x 14" inch by Mohammed Ismail
By Mohammed Ismail
Located in Culver City, CA
"Camouflage" Abstract Painting Oil on Cartoon 20" x 14" inch by Mohammed Ismail
1991
Signed & Dated
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mohammed Ismail (1936-1993)
Dr. Mohamed Ismail was born in 1...
Category
20th Century Abstract Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Abstract Calligraphy" Abstract Oil Painting 31.5" x 39" inch by KAMAL EL SARRAG
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Calligraphy" Abstract Oil Painting 31.5" x 39" inch by KAMAL EL SARRAG
Category
20th Century Abstract Geometric Africa - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Abstract Composition 3" Abstract Oil Painting 24" x 18" inch by Youssef Sida
By Youssef Sida
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition 3" Abstract Oil Painting 24" x 18" inch by Youssef Sida
Signed and dated 1990
Youssef Sida
1922-1994
Born in 1922 in Damietta, and in 1945 he got his degree from the Higher Institute of Educational Art. In 1947, he participated in establishing the influential Group of Modern Art. In 1949 he participated in the Egyptian exhibition in Paris. In 1950, he received the Full Bright award for studying art at Minnesota University. He then studied at Colombia University in NY and began exhibiting his work in NY and Minnesota from 1951-1952. He participated in 1953 in the Biennale of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Upon returning to Egypt in 1954, he became active in local and international exhibitions. In 1961, he was sent by the Egyptian government to receive his Ph.D. from Columbus University, Ohio. After, he started exhibiting his work in Columbus and Washington DC.
Y.Sida’s work at the start was mainly dealing with popular Egyptian themes. We can distinguish Sida’s work through his power of using primary colors in its purest form directly in the tubes without being mixed with other colors. Also, we can notice in his work a tendency towards the qualities and techniques of children’s art.
In his later years, Sida began experimenting with Arabic Calligraphy by concentrating on the forms and shapes that are dominant in the popular Egyptian motives and décor. We can witness the dynamism in his Arabic calligraphy work. Sida is also known for his huge murals...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Contemplating" Oil Painting 27" x 19" inch by Zohra Efflatoun
By Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Contemplating" Oil Painting 27" x 19" inch by Zohra Efflatoun
Signed
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister Inji was a renowned painter from Cairo. Whereas Zohra, who lived in Alexandria, studied under the patronage of the Alexandrian pioneer painters Adham and Seif Wanly...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
"The Kunafeh Merchant" Oil Painting 27" x 31" inch (1960) by Youssef Sida
By Youssef Sida
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Kunafeh Merchant" Oil Painting 27" x 31" inch (1960) by Youssef Sida
Signed and dated
1960
Youssef Sida
1922-1994
Born in 1922 in Damietta, and in ...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
"Abstract Triptych II" Oil on Canvas Painting 23" x 60" inch by Mohammed Ismail
By Mohammed Ismail
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Triptych II" Oil on Canvas Painting 23" x 60" inch by Mohammed Ismail
1991
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mohammed Ismail (1936-1993)
Dr. Mohamed Ismail was born in 1936 in Zagazig...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
"Le Chat I" Oil Painting 20" x 19" inch (1959) by Zohra Efflatoun
By Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Le Chat I" Oil Painting 20" x 19" inch (1959) by Zohra Efflatoun
signed & dated
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister Inji w...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Abstract Composition" Abstract Oil Painting 24" x 18" inch by Youssef Sida
By Youssef Sida
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition" Abstract Oil Painting 24" x 18" inch by Youssef Sida
Signed and dated 1990
Youssef Sida
1922-1994
Born in 1922 in Damietta, and ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Abstract Composition" Oil painting 19" x 13" by Tahia Halim
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition" Oil painting 19" x 13" by Tahia Halim
Oil on cartoon / signed & not dated
Tahia Halim was born in Cairo in 1919. Her primary e...
Category
20th Century Abstract Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Stroll in the Park" Oil Painting 20" x 28" inch (1970) by Zohra Efflatoun
By Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Stroll in the Park" Oil Painting 20" x 28" inch (1970) by Zohra Efflatoun
signed & dated
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sist...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Steel Factory" Oil Painting 39" x 28" inch (1967) by Zohra Efflatoun
By Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Steel Factory" Oil Painting 39" x 28" inch (1967) by Zohra Efflatoun
signed & dated
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister In...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Faces I" Oil on Carton Abstract Painting 28" x 22" inch by Youssef Sida
By Youssef Sida
Located in Culver City, CA
"Faces I" Oil on Carton Abstract Painting 28" x 22" inch by Youssef Sida
Signed and dated 1990
Youssef Sida
1922-1994
Born in 1922 in Damietta, and in 1...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Africa - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
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