Live Auction 7895International Modern and Contemporary Art
Hamed Nada (Egyptian, 1924-1990)
Lot 8 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. MOHAMMED SAID FARSI

Hamed Nada (Egyptian, 1924-1990)

A Talisman

Closed26 October 2010

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Hamed Nada (Egyptian, 1924-1990)
A Talisman
signed 'Nada' and signed and dated in Arabic (lower right); signed and inscribed in Arabic (on the reverse)
oil on board
48 3/8 x 35½in. (123 x 90cm.)
Painted in 1964

Specialist note

The present painting and the following lot are rare works from Hamed Nada's early period. At this stage two trends are apparent, both of which links them closely to that of El-Gazzar. The first is a social-realist tendency- the helpless destitute figures dwell in dark, their massiveness of their bodies weighing them down both literally and metaphorically; the second is a fascination with folk magic, talismans and excorisim. In style they are close to El-Gazzar's work of his Folkloric period and quite different from Nada's later work.