Untitled

Details

Saliba Douaihy (Lebanese, 1912-1994)
Untitled
signed 'Douaihy' (on the reverse); signed 'Douaihy' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 42 1/8in. (91.7 x 106.9cm.)
Painted circa 1970s

Provenance

A gift from the artist to the present owner in the late 1980s.

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Lot Essay

'These handsome abstractions consist of beautifully composed color planes which, through a subtle play of value intensities, create the illusion of collage. The illusion is further abetted by a torn-edge relationship occurring from shape to shape. Disciplined in the extreme, the work also exudes a sultry, sensuous atmosphere'.
(J. Gruen, "Saliba Douaihy", in The New York Herald Tribune, 12 March 1966, quoted in exh. cat., Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, The Art of Saliba Douaihy. A Retrospective Exhibition, 1978, p. 25).

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