A Mad Woman

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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

出版

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.291 and illustrated p.282 ref 1/38).
Sobhy Al-Sharouny, Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar, Cairo, 2007 (illustrated in colour, p.64).
Enas Hosni, Contemporary Art Group: A Surviving Wealth of Admirable Art, Cairo, 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 71).

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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.