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Item Ships From: Africa
"Le Chat" Abstract Oil Painting 20" x 24" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
By Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Le Chat" Abstract Oil Painting 20" x 24" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
ABOUT
A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and at times, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dervish Profile I” Figurative Painting 31x31 in by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Dervish Profile I” Figurative Painting 31x31 in by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass, Mixed Media
Royal Reverie (The Child
s Crown) - Painting, Fabric and Newspaper on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Jeffery’s journey into the realm of collage was sparked by an enlightening visit to his tailor. Upon seeing the remnants of fabric destined for waste, he envisioned their potential a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Newsprint
"Tales I" Abstract Painting 39" x 39" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Located in Culver City, CA
"Tales I" Abstract Painting 39" x 39" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Yasmine Hassan’s still life portrayals of cacti and other stark foliage can scarcely be described as such, given that it...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Cheiftain" Abstract Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
By Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cheiftain" Abstract Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
ABOUT
A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and at times...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Women In Melodies - Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Located in London, GB
Akingbade Mayowa
1988 - Current
Women in Melodies, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
127 x 101.6 cm
50 x 40 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Red Dot Cap- Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Located in London, GB
Akingbade Mayowa
1988 - Current
Red Dot Cap, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
50.8 x 40.6 cm
20 x 16 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Balcony Fresh Air - Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Located in London, GB
Akingbade Mayowa
1988 - Current
Balcony Fresh Air, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
127 x 101.6 cm
50 x 40 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fun At The Pool 2 - Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Located in London, GB
Akingbade Mayowa
1988 - Current
Fun At The Pool 2, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
94 x 91.4 cm
37 x 36 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fun At The Pool 1 - Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Located in London, GB
Akingbade Mayowa
1988 - Current
Fun At The Pool 1, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
91.4 x 91.4 cm
36 x 36 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Woman in Blue” Oil Painting 53" x 27.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Woman in Blue” 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 and the subject of the orientalism and the enchantment of that period. Through her work we can feel the researches she has done to reveal her Egyptian origins and the magic and power of the bygone times. Katherine Bakhoum has succeeded in imprinting her own stamp to evoke a new world full of charm, nostalgia and magic that is deeply implanted in her canvas. Her power dwells in creating her own style of contemporary expressionism building upon the old orientalism.
Katherine Bakhoum’s art comes up out of an Egyptian childhood and from the distance of a life spent in France. What is left unsaid is as important as what is shown. Decorative yes, as in old orientalism, when everything was texture and what wasn’t texture was veiled, a reincarnation of old spirits, dervishes, orientalist motifs and the stuff of a once powerful civilization, the better to suggest it all might just come to life again.
The choice of ancient subject matters, the echo of orientalist pieces in the collages, like the echo of the appeal of ancient gestures, of foreign lands, and domestic tapestries, all this weaves up out of Katherine Bakhoum’s creations. Sometimes we only have the line of a horizon on which to hang our imagination, sometimes we only have the trace of a profile in the shadows. What we always have is a persistent belief in beauty.
Where there is beauty, there is hope. Katherine Bakhoum has abandoned neither.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Claudine Legrand Gallery: Annual exhibitions from 1996 to 2016
Safar Khan Gallery, Cairo: Annual exhibitions from 1999 to 2018
Galerie la Sirène, Le Mans 2010
Galerie Ghislaine Eonnet-Dupuy, St Briac 2008 2009
Green art gallery Dubai 2009
Galerie La Medina, Tunis 2001
Italian Cultural Institute, Cairo 1999
Gallery Lézard d'Ailleurs 1998
Influence Gallery 1997
Bruno Delarue Gallery Etretat 1997
Jolymont workshops in Brussels 1996
Gallery Lézard d'Ailleurs St Rémy de Provence 1995
Etienne Causans Gallery 1995
Gallery Art 50 1994
Gallery Art 50 1993
Anne Vignial Gallery 1992
Galerie Escalier Rouge, Ouagadougou 2002
City of Arts, Florence Foundation 1992
Galerie Peinture Fraiche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Justice - Painting, Fabric on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Jeffery’s journey into the realm of collage was sparked by an enlightening visit to his tailor. Upon seeing the remnants of fabric destined for waste, he envisioned their potential a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric
"Prickly Pear Ears II" Abstract Painting 39" x 39" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Located in Culver City, CA
"Prickly Pear Ears II" Abstract Painting 39" x 39" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Yasmine Hassan’s still life portrayals of cacti and other stark foliage can scarcely be described as such, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Waiting at dusk - Painting, Pen and Acrylic on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Jules Disso
Waiting at dusk, 2023
Ball-point pen and acrylic on canvas
110 × 120 cm
43 3/10 × 47 1/5 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Ballpoint Pen
"Fellucas II" Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fellucas II" Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Born 1989, Mohamed Hussein is a Fayoum native whose semi-abstract landscape and urban vistas are captured with a cultured ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Port Said” Landscape Oil Painting 5" x 8" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Port Said” Landscape Oil Painting 5" x 8" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She dr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Meridian Hotel Mural" Watercolor on Paper 20" x 22" inch by Salah Abdel Kerim
By Salah Abdel Kerim
Located in Culver City, CA
"Meridian Hotel Mural" Watercolor on Paper 20" x 22" inch 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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Tales II" Abstract Painting 39" x 39" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Located in Culver City, CA
"Tales II" Abstract Painting 39" x 39" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Yasmine Hassan’s still life portrayals of cacti and other stark foliage can scarcely be described as such, given that i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"La Barque” Landscape Oil Painting 5" x 8" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"La Barque” Landscape Oil Painting 5" x 8" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Red and Brown Abstract Rusted Metal Composition "Hollywood"
By Mark Hilltout
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Mark Hilltout has always been drawn to the random, the discarded and the broken. Car dumps fascinate him - he is attracted to the broken edge, not the perfectly straight line. For th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
Abstract Figurative Rusted Metal Composition "Dancing Barbed Wire Study 1"
By Mark Hilltout
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Mark Hilltout has always been drawn to the random, the discarded and the broken. Car dumps fascinate him - he is attracted to the broken edge, not the perfectly straight line. For th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
Card sharps with the ace of diamonds in 1 and 3 - Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Joseph Kojo Hoggar
Card sharps with the ace of diamonds in 1 and 3, 2023
MIxed media on denim
80 x 120 cm
31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
"Favela I" Painting 17" x 20" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Located in Culver City, CA
"Favela I" Painting 17" x 20" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Born 1989, Mohamed Hussein is a Fayoum native whose semi-abstract landscape and urban vistas are captured with a cultured palet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Red Clouds" Acrylic
Inks Painting 39" x 39" inch by Kinda Adly
By Kinda Adly
Located in Culver City, CA
"Red Clouds" Acrylic
Inks Painting 39" x 39" inch by Kinda Adly
Kinda Adly, born in Egypt in 1989, is a self-taught artist. She grew up in Egypt a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
"Longing Lover" Figurative Oil Painting 31" x 31" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Located in Culver City, CA
"Longing Lover" Figurative Oil Painting 31" x 31" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Waves of Life" Painting 28" x 20" inch by Tasneem El-Meshad
By Tasneem El Meshad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Waves of Life" Painting 28" x 20" inch by Tasneem El-Meshad
Acrylic on wood
Academy of Fine Arts Cairo graduate Tasneem El Meshad describes her art, as “a reflection of the chaoti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
"El Sayyad" Pastel on Paper Painting 12" x 8" inch by Inji Efflatoun
By Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"El Sayyad" Pastel on Paper Painting 12" x 8" inch by Inji Efflatoun
circa 1960
Signed
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibitio...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
"Perched Dove" Abstract Painting 63" x 55" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Perched Dove" Abstract Painting 63" x 55" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhoo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Waiting I" Figurative Painting 27" x 21" inch by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Waiting I" Figurative Painting 27" x 21" inch by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Ink & Acrylic on Paper.
Signed & dated
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
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
"Last Night" Figurative Oil Painting 43" x 39" inch by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Last Night" Figurative Oil Painting 43" x 39" inch by Yousra Hafad
Yousra Hafad is a teacher at the Faculty of Art Education in her native Luxor. Her pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Woman
Rabbit" Figurative Charcoal Painting 20" x 20" inch by Ahmed Saber
By Ahmed Saber
Located in Culver City, CA
"Woman
Rabbit" Figurative Charcoal Painting 20" x 20" inch by Ahmed Saber
AHMED SABER - BIO
Ahmed Saber is an Egyptian artist based in Luxor in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Ink, Acrylic
"Woman in Red Turban” Portrait Oil Painting 63x47 in by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Woman in Red Turban” Portrait Oil Painting 63x47 in by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Pastel on paper. Framed.
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept and the subject of the orientalism and the enchantment of that period. Through her work we can feel the researches she has done to reveal her Egyptian origins and the magic and power of the bygone times. Katherine Bakhoum has succeeded in imprinting her own stamp to evoke a new world full of charm, nostalgia and magic that is deeply implanted in her canvas. Her power dwells in creating her own style of contemporary expressionism building upon the old orientalism.
Katherine Bakhoum’s art comes up out of an Egyptian childhood and from the distance of a life spent in France. What is left unsaid is as important as what is shown. Decorative yes, as in old orientalism, when everything was texture and what wasn’t texture was veiled, a reincarnation of old spirits, dervishes, orientalist motifs and the stuff of a once powerful civilization, the better to suggest it all might just come to life again.
The choice of ancient subject matters, the echo of orientalist pieces in the collages, like the echo of the appeal of ancient gestures, of foreign lands, and domestic tapestries, all this weaves up out of Katherine Bakhoum’s creations. Sometimes we only have the line of a horizon on which to hang our imagination, sometimes we only have the trace of a profile in the shadows. What we always have is a persistent belief in beauty.
Where there is beauty, there is hope. Katherine Bakhoum has abandoned neither.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Claudine Legrand Gallery: Annual exhibitions from 1996 to 2016
Safar Khan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Woman
Fish" Figurative Charcoal Painting 20" x 25" inch by Ahmed Saber
By Ahmed Saber
Located in Culver City, CA
"Woman
Fish" Figurative Charcoal Painting 20" x 25" inch by Ahmed Saber
AHMED SABER - BIO
Ahmed Saber is an Egyptian artist based in Luxor in U...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Ink, Acrylic
"Windows" Painting 71" x 47" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Located in Culver City, CA
"Windows" Painting 71" x 47" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Born 1989, Mohamed Hussein is a Fayoum native whose semi-abstract landscape and urban vistas are ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Portrait Boy" Oil Painting 14.5" x 20" inch (1930) by Shaaban Zaki
By Shaaban Zaki
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait Boy" Oil Painting 14.5" x 20" inch (1930) by Shaaban Zaki
signed & dated
Shaaban Zaki came from a lower-middle-class family who was mostly government employees, but he wa...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"In Company of Pigeons" Figurative Painting 56" x 64" inch by Ahmed Saber
By Ahmed Saber
Located in Culver City, CA
"In Company of Pigeons" Figurative Painting 56" x 64" inch by Ahmed Saber
acrylic, ink & silver leaf on wood
AHMED SABER - BIO
Ahmed Saber is an Egyptian artist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver
"Date for One" Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 47" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Located in Culver City, CA
"Date for One" Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 47" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has bee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"El Toro" Abstract Oil Painting 57" x 77" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
By Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"El Toro" Abstract Oil Painting 57" x 77" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Ashraf El Zamzami was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Minya, and he fast made a name for himself in the lo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Beauty in Blue” Painting 25.5" x 25.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Beauty in Blue” Painting 25.5" x 25.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept and th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Canvas
"Egyptology" Figurative Painting 11" x 9" inch (1987) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Egyptology" Figurative Painting 11" x 9" inch (1987) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Emancipation, 1987
Ink on Paper.
Signed & dated
The selection of Abd Elmalak’s drawings is reflective...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
High Life - Painting, Acrylic and pastel on canvas
Located in London, GB
Chinezim Moghalu
1992 - Current
High Life, 2023
Acrylic and pastel on canvas
147 x 140 cm
57 7/8 x 55 1/8 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
Communion - Painting, Acrylic and pastel on canvas
Located in London, GB
Chinezim Moghalu
1992 - Current
Communion, 2024
Acrylic and pastel on canvas
137 x 127 cm
54 x 50 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
Brown Impressionistic Oil on Canvas Figurative Street Scene "On Guard"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique oil painting, drawing heavily from the post-impressionist movement. A gloomy night-time street scene, typical of Glanville's work, depicting two figures in earthy colours.
O...
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Roses on the Nile III" Painting 47" x 59" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Roses on the Nile III" Painting 47" x 59" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood and finished school. In 197...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"New Soul" Mixed media Painting 71" x 35" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
By Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"New Soul" Mixed media Painting 71" x 35" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old masters.
Abdel Malak textured oils are a celebration of the female identity in every sense of the word. His beautiful faces and suave figures grace the canvases together embracing our Egyptian architectural...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil
"Nude Lady" Nude Pencil on Paper 20" x 12" inch (1954) by Salah Abdel Kerim
By Salah Abdel Kerim
Located in Culver City, CA
"Nude Lady" Nude Pencil on Paper 20" x 12" inch (1954) 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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Peace of Mind" Figurative Painting 31.5" x 31.5" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
By Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Peace of Mind" Figurative Painting 31.5" x 31.5" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil
"Family” Oil Painting 25.5" x 25.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Family” Oil Painting 25.5" x 25.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept and the sub...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Alpine Village I" Pastel on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
By Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Alpine Village III" Pastel on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
signed & dated
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhib...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
"The Hourglass" Abstract Painting 39" x 27.5" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
By Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Hourglass" Abstract Painting 39" x 27.5" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old masters.
Abdel Malak textured oils are a celebration of the female identity in every sense of the word. His beautiful faces and suave figures grace the canvases together embracing our Egyptian architectural monuments creating a powerful dialogue between women’s identity, her rights, her suffering and our heritage and what it holds in its historical meanings and the deteriorating state.
Graduate from the faculty of Fine Arts, Minia University, Graphic Design Department. Illustrator for Sabah El Kheir & Rosalyoussef, Egyptian local magazines.
Practice Sculpture.
Participant in the 1st Child’s Biennale workshop “Fantasia 1”, Cairo 2003.
Won the silver medal in the International Competition of “SHANKERS World Association”, India 1993.
Exhibitions:
Private Art Works Exhibition at Cairo Gallery, 2001.
Public Exhibition at Ahmed Shawky Museum, Cairo 2001.
Public Exhibition at Mahmoud Said...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas
"River
s Bounty" Oil painting 24" x 47" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Located in Culver City, CA
"River's Bounty" Oil painting 24" x 47" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has been painting for three decades and has nota...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dark Impressionistic Oil on Canvas Figurative Night Scene "Farm Watch"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique oil painting, drawing heavily from the post-impressionist movement.
A gloomy night-time scene, typical of Glanville's work.
Oil on stretched canvas, ready to hang. Shadow f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dark Impressionist Oil on Canvas Street Scene "Out There"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique oil painting, drawing heavily from the post-impressionist movement. A gloomy night-time street scene, typical of Glanville's work.
Oil on stretched canvas, ready to hang. Sh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Duality" Abstract Oil Painting 31.5" x 39" inch (1969) by Zaccaria Zeini
Located in Culver City, CA
"Duality" Abstract Oil Painting 31.5" x 39" inch (1969) by Zaccaria Zeini
Medium: oil on canvas
Signed and dated
Comes in old original frame
Zaccar...
Category
20th Century Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sur la Terrace” Oil Painting 25.5" x 25.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Sur la Terrace” Oil Painting 25.5" x 25.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept and the subject of the orientalism and the enchantment of that period. Through her work we can feel the researches she has done to reveal her Egyptian origins and the magic and power of the bygone times. Katherine Bakhoum has succeeded in imprinting her own stamp to evoke a new world full of charm, nostalgia and magic that is deeply implanted in her canvas. Her power dwells in creating her own style of contemporary expressionism building upon the old orientalism.
Katherine Bakhoum’s art comes up out of an Egyptian childhood and from the distance of a life spent in France. What is left unsaid is as important as what is shown. Decorative yes, as in old orientalism, when everything was texture and what wasn’t texture was veiled, a reincarnation of old spirits, dervishes, orientalist motifs and the stuff of a once powerful civilization, the better to suggest it all might just come to life again.
The choice of ancient subject matters, the echo of orientalist pieces in the collages, like the echo of the appeal of ancient gestures, of foreign lands, and domestic tapestries, all this weaves up out of Katherine Bakhoum’s creations. Sometimes we only have the line of a horizon on which to hang our imagination, sometimes we only have the trace of a profile in the shadows. What we always have is a persistent belief in beauty.
Where there is beauty, there is hope. Katherine Bakhoum has abandoned neither.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Claudine Legrand Gallery: Annual exhibitions from 1996 to 2016
Safar Khan Gallery, Cairo: Annual exhibitions from 1999 to 2018
Galerie la Sirène, Le Mans 2010
Galerie Ghislaine Eonnet-Dupuy, St Briac 2008 2009
Green art gallery Dubai 2009
Galerie La Medina, Tunis 2001
Italian Cultural Institute, Cairo 1999
Gallery Lézard d'Ailleurs 1998
Influence Gallery 1997
Bruno Delarue Gallery Etretat 1997
Jolymont workshops in Brussels 1996
Gallery Lézard d'Ailleurs St Rémy de Provence 1995
Etienne Causans Gallery 1995
Gallery Art 50 1994
Gallery Art 50 1993
Anne Vignial Gallery 1992
Galerie Escalier Rouge, Ouagadougou 2002
City of Arts, Florence Foundation 1992
Galerie Peinture Fraiche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dreamcatcher" Mixed media Painting 79" x 24" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
By Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Dreamcatcher" Mixed media Painting 79" x 24" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old mast...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil
"Profil Orange" Portrait Painting 25" x 25" in by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Profil Orange" Portrait Painting 25" x 25" in by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Techniques
Bakhoum often paints on canvases that have been prepared with various materials. She generally ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass, Pastel, Mixed Media
"India II" Figurative Oil Painting 16" x 20" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"India II" Figurative Oil Painting 16" x 20" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
"Geisha in Waiting" Figurative Oil Painting 49" x 81" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
By Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Geisha in Waiting" Figurative Oil Painting 49" x 81" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Ashraf El Zamzami was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Minya, and he fast made a name for hims...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled 119" Abstract Painting 47" x 31" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
By Ahmed Dafrawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 119" Abstract Painting 47" x 31" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
Dafrawy’s fine arts academic background started in 2014 when he received the certifica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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