A Talisman

Details

Hamed Nada (Egyptian, 1924-1990)
A Talisman
signed 'Nada' and signed and dated in Arabic (lower right); signed and inscribed in Arabic (on the reverse)
oil on board
48 3/8 x 35½in. (123 x 90cm.)
Painted in 1964

Literature

Sobhy Al-Sharouny, A Museum in a Book: The Farsi Art Collection "The Egyptian Works" Owned by Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi, Cairo, 1998 (illustrated in colour, p.267 and illustrated p.262 ref 2/32).
Sobhy Al-Sharouny, The Art of Hamed Nada in the Collection of Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi (in Arabic), Alexandria, 2006 (illustrated in colour, ref 2/32). Enas Hosni, Contemporary Art Group: A Surviving Wealth of Admirable Art', Cairo, 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 127).

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Lot Essay

The present painting and the following lot are rare works from Hamed Nada's early period. At this stage two trends are apparent, both of which links them closely to that of El-Gazzar. The first is a social-realist tendency- the helpless destitute figures dwell in dark, their massiveness of their bodies weighing them down both literally and metaphorically; the second is a fascination with folk magic, talismans and excorisim. In style they are close to El-Gazzar's work of his Folkloric period and quite different from Nada's later work.

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