Live Auction 7477International Modern and Contemporary Art
KHALED AL-RAHHAL (IRAQI, 1926-1987)
Lot 55

KHALED AL-RAHHAL (IRAQI, 1926-1987)

Sumerian Face

Closed31 October 2007

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USD 46,600

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KHALED AL-RAHHAL (IRAQI, 1926-1987)
Sumerian Face
signed and dated in Arabic (on the reverse)
gypsum
9in. (23cm.) high
Executed in 1944

Specialist note

This gypsum sculpture is known to have been created by the artist at his studio at the Fine Art Institute, Baghdad in 1944, for one of his favourite female students as he attempted to present her in a way reminiscent of a Sumerian face.