Live Auction 1239Modern & Contemporary Art
Saliba Douaihy (Lebanese, 1912-1994)
Lot 19 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MASSACHUSETTS

Saliba Douaihy (Lebanese, 1912-1994)

Untitled

Closed20 October 2015

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Saliba Douaihy (Lebanese, 1912-1994)
Untitled
signed 'S. Douaihy' (on the overlap); signed 'Douaihy' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
22 x 30in. (56 x 76cm.)
Painted circa 1970s

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in Massachusetts in 1991.

Specialist note

'His canvasses break away from the anonymous formulations of most of the hard-edge work of today by his interruptions of his geometric line with unexpected projections, sensuous curves, original forms. With a minimum of flat colors, he has been able to create a harmony and order, moving and motionless where the near and far meet in equilibrium.'
(C. Willard, "Saliba Douaihy", in The New York Post, 20 March 1966, quoted in exh. cat., Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, The Art of Saliba Douaihy. A Retrospective Exhibition, 1978, p. 25).