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Abdul Hadi El-Gazzar (Egyptian, 1925-1965)
Lot 7PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. MOHAMMED SAID FARSI

Abdul Hadi El-Gazzar (Egyptian, 1925-1965)

A Mad Woman

Fermé26 October 2010

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Abdul Hadi El-Gazzar (Egyptian, 1925-1965)
A Mad Woman
signed and dated in Arabic (lower right); signed and titled in Arabic (on the reverse)
oil on board
36¾ x 27in. (93 x 68.8cm)
Painted in 1957

Note du spécialiste

This large painting is among the most the most self-consciously surreal of El-Gazzar's folkloric period. Charging towards us in a trance-like state is a crazy woman, her gloved clawlike hands held far above her head, her hair reaching almost to her ankles. The covered alley through which she runs, a familiar sight in the older quarters of Cairo, is here shown with distorted perspective and is crammed with symbolic objects, becoming a claustrophobic trap. Enigmatic details crowd the composition- the totemic head at the base of the wooden column on the right; the ornate box at the top of this column from which an anchor is suspended; the huge key hanging on the wall of the left, the animal skin rug strewn across the floor and, echoing its shape, the bald-headed prostrate figure lying on the ground. Together these perpetuate the state of unease.