Galerie Claude Lemand

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.