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, president of the Fonds Claude & France Lemand-IMA.