Gazbia Sirry (Egypt, born 1925)Humanity oil on canvas, framed signed "Gazbia" in Arabic and English and dated "96" (lower left), executed in 1996 52 x 44.5cm (20 1/2 x 17 1/2in).FootnotesProvenance: Property from a private collection, Alexandria Acquired directly from the Artist by the above in the 1990s "Notwithstanding the historical significance of her art—and the international recognition that has come with a record of seventy-five-plus one-woman shows across continents— Sirry is surprisingly under-studied, and her art is described predominantly in technical terms centered on "color." The quintessence of life and political statements, however, seems to have been ignored, if not entirely missed. Educated in Egypt and Europe, Sirry built one of the most influential careers in twentieth-century modern Arab art. Divided into three overlapping phases, her paintings blur art and politics as they narrate the story of societies vacillating between triumph and defeat, dignity and humiliation, social justice and inequality. Sirry arguably birthed a new identity that makes no distinction between seeing and militancy. As she fluidly moved between styles, this "childless" grande dame became the national godmother to an entire nation" - Fatenn Mostafa Kanafani
Gazbia Sirry (Egypt, born 1925)Humanity oil on canvas, framed signed "Gazbia" in Arabic and English and dated "96" (lower left), executed in 1996 52 x 44.5cm (20 1/2 x 17 1/2in).FootnotesProvenance: Property from a private collection, Alexandria Acquired directly from the Artist by the above in the 1990s "Notwithstanding the historical significance of her art—and the international recognition that has come with a record of seventy-five-plus one-woman shows across continents— Sirry is surprisingly under-studied, and her art is described predominantly in technical terms centered on "color." The quintessence of life and political statements, however, seems to have been ignored, if not entirely missed. Educated in Egypt and Europe, Sirry built one of the most influential careers in twentieth-century modern Arab art. Divided into three overlapping phases, her paintings blur art and politics as they narrate the story of societies vacillating between triumph and defeat, dignity and humiliation, social justice and inequality. Sirry arguably birthed a new identity that makes no distinction between seeing and militancy. As she fluidly moved between styles, this "childless" grande dame became the national godmother to an entire nation" - Fatenn Mostafa Kanafani
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