Live Auction 1135Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Ahmed Alsoudani (B.1975)
Lot 211

Ahmed Alsoudani (B.1975)

Untitled

Closed26 June 2013

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GBP 76,275

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Ahmed Alsoudani (B.1975)
Untitled
signed, signed in Arabic and dated 'soudani 2010' (on the reverse)
oil, charcoal and graphite on canvas
40 x 42in. (101.6 x 106.7cm.)
Painted in 2010

Robert Goff Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'The painting has been loaded with a lot of symbolic elements to relate [to] where I come from. So that's why I say there are no boundaries, or specific lines between the memory and the moment in which I live. That's why I like the idea of the experience of the artist's vision.'
(A. Alsoudani, quoted in S. Rowlett, 'On Painting, the Melting Pot, and Making Soup: An Interview with Iraqi artist Ahmed Alsoudani', https://hyperallergic.com/61032/painting-the-melting-pot-and-making-soup -an-interview-with-iraqi-artist-ahmed-alsoudani ([accessed 21st May 2013]).