Live Auction 7804International Modern & Contemporary Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 27 THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

Shakir Hassan Al-Said (Iraqi, 1925-2004)

Wall # 1

Closed27 October 2009

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USD 27,500

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Shakir Hassan Al-Said (Iraqi, 1925-2004)
Wall # 1
signed and dated in Arabic (upper right); signed, titled and dated on a label (on the reverse)
oil on assemblage of panels
24¾ x 17¼in. (63 x 45cm.)
Executed in 1991

Shoman Foundation, Amman, exhibition, 1992.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

Painted during the First Gulf War, this is Shakir Hassan's rendering of that traumatic experience