Live Auction 8058Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art Part II
Lalla Essaydi (Moroccan, b. 1956)
Lot 117

Lalla Essaydi (Moroccan, b. 1956)

Les Femmes du Maroc: Harem no. 11

Closed18 April 2012

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Lalla Essaydi (Moroccan, b. 1956)
Les Femmes du Maroc: Harem no. 11
signed 'Lalla Essaydi' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
chromogenic print mounted on aluminium, in three parts
each: 40 1/8 x 32 5/8in. (102 x 83cm.)
overall: 40 1/8 x 98 3/8in. (102 x 249cm.)
Conceived in 2009 and executed in 2010, this work is number one from an edition of fifteen

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.

Specialist note

'The physical harem is the dangerous frontier where sacred law and pleasure collide. This is not the harem of the Western Orientalist imagination, an anxiety-free place of euphoria and the absence of constraints, where the word "harem" has lost its dangerous edge. My harem is based on the historical reality; rather than the artistic images of the West - an idyllic, lustful dream of sexually available women, uninhibited by the moral constraints of 19th Century Europe.' (The artist, quoted on https://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2010-11-04_lalla-essaydi/).