DRAWINGS FROM THE ARAB WORLD.

From 26 March to 14 September 2019 - Museum. Institut du monde arabe, Paris.

  • AZZAWI, Al-Mu’allaqat 3.

    Al-Mu'allaqat 3, 1978. Indian ink on paper, 92 x 64 cm. Donation Claude & France Lemand. Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. © Dia Al-Azzawi. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • BOUABDELLAH, Le Sommeil.

    Le Sommeil (A tribute to Gustave Courbet), 2019. Red lacquer on paper, 160 x 280 cm. Edition 3/3. © Zoulikha Bouabdellah. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • BAALBAKI, Untitled, 2017.

    Untitled, 2017. Acrylic and ink on paper laid down on canvas, 75 x 120 cm. Fonds Claude and France Lemand-IMA. Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. © Ayman Baalbaki. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • LEKLETI, L’indicible demeure de l’espoir.

    L'indicible demeure de l'espoir, 2019. Mixed media and mask on paper laid down on wood panel, 114 x 146 cm. © Mohamed Lekleti. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • BINEBINE, Untitled.

    Untitled, 2015. Mixed media on cardboard, 80 x 76 cm. Collection Claude & France Lemand. © Mahi Binebine. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

DRAWINGS FROM THE ARAB WORLD.
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The Museum of the Institut du monde arabe in Paris is hosting an unprece­dented exhi­bi­tion of draw­ings by Artists from the Arab world. Around a hun­dred works from its col­lec­tion, recently enriched thanks to Claude & France Lemand’s Donation, are to be dis­cov­ered on this occa­sion. These draw­ings, pre­dom­i­nantly fig­u­ra­tive, date from the 11th cen­tury until today and some are being exhib­ited for the first time.

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7 Ancient Drawings :

 Tapisserie au cav­a­lier, Egypte, Ve-VIe siècle.
 Un homme dévoré par un lion, Egypte, Fustât, XIe siècle.
 Un homme por­tant un bonnet pointu, Egypte, Fustât, XIe siècle.
 Alexandre le Grand en quête de l’immor­talité, feuillet d’un Shâh-nâme, Iraq, Bagdad, XVIe s.
 Une île sur la mer de Chine, feuillet d’un ‘Ajâ’ib al-buldân, Iraq, Bagdad, 2e moitié du XVIe s.
 Carreau de revête­ment aux pal­mettes, Syrie, Damas, 1555-1560.
 Poupée d’un théâtre d’ombres, Syrie, Damas, fin du XIXe siècle.
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54 Modern and Contemporary Artists :

 Shafic ABBOUD (Lebanon, 1926-France, 2004)
 Zeinab ABDEL-HAMID (Egypt, 1919-2002)
 Saïd AL-ADAWI (Egypt, 1937-1973)
 Etel ADNAN (Lebanon, 1925)
 ADONIS (Syria-Lebanon, 1930)
 Malihe AFNAN (Palestine, 1935-UK, 2016)
 Fathi AHMAD (Egypt, 1939)
 Yousef AHMAD (Qatar, 1955)
 Mamdouh AMMAR (Egypt, 1926)
 Farid AOUAD (Lebanon, 1924-1982)
 ASSADOUR (Lebanon, 1943)
 Dia AL-AZZAWI (Iraq, 1939)
 Ayman BAALBAKI (Lebanon, 1975)
 Georges BAHGORY (Egypt, 1932)
 Taysir BARAKAT (Palestine, 1959)
 Mahjoub BEN BELLA (Algeria, 1946)
 Abdallah BENANTEUR (Algeria, 1931-France, 2017)
 Mahi BINEBINE (Morocco, 1959)
 Anna BOGHIGUIAN (Egypt, 1946)
 Zoulikha BOUABDELLAH (Algeria, 1977)
 Ali CHAMS (Lebanon, 1943-2019)
 Ahmed CHERKAOUI (Marocco, 1934-1967)
 Fuad AL-FUTAIH (Yemen, 1948)
 Abdel Hadi EL-GAZZAR (Egypt, 1925-1965)
 Ahmed HAJERI (Tunisia, 1948)
 Fatima EL-HAJJ (Lebanon, 1953)
 Bouchta EL-HAYANI (Morocco, 1952)
 HIMAT Mohammad Ali (Iraq, 1960)
 Rachid KORAICHI (Algeria, 1947)
 Abdellatif LAABI (Marocco, 1942)
 Miloud LABIED (Morocco, 1939-2008)
 Mohamed LEKLETI (Morocco, 1965)
 Boutros AL-MAARI (Syrie, 1968)
 Hussein MADI (Lebanon, 1938)
 Nja MAHDAOUI (Tunisia, 1937)
 Azouaou MAMMERI (Algéria, 1890-1954)
 Mohamed Sabri MANSOUR (Egypt, 1943)
 MARWAN Kassab Bachi (Syria, 1934-Germany, 2016)
 Najia MEHADJI (France-Marocco, 1950)
 Kevork MOURAD (Syria, 1970)
 Hamed NADA (Egypt, 1924-1990)
 NAGHAM Hodaifa (Syria, 1981)
 Ahmad NAWAR (Egypt, 1949)
 Shaker Hasan AL-SAID (Irak, 1925-2004)
 Faysal SAMRA (Saudi Arabia, 1955)
 Ihab SHAKER (Egypt, 1932)
 Nabil SHEHADEH (Palestine, Jerusalem, 1950)
 Hussein TAÏ (Iraq, 1966)
 Vladimir TAMARI (Palestine, 1942-Japan, 2017)
 Moussa TIBA (Lebanon, 1939)
 Gouider TRIKI (Tunisia, 1949)
 Margot VEILLON (Egypt, 1907-2003)
 Fadi YAZIGI (Syria, 1966)
 Hani ZUROB (Palestine, 1976)
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Curators of the exhi­bi­tion :
 Eric Delpont, director of the Museum, Institut du monde arabe.
 Claude Lemand, col­lector and great donor to the IMA Museum.

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