Lot 166
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Dia Azzawi (Iraqi, b.1939)
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SHIRLEY AND TONY IRVING
Dia Azzawi (Iraqi, b.1939)

Untitled

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Dia Azzawi (Iraqi, b.1939)
Untitled
signed and dated in Arabic (lower left); signed, dated and located 'Dhia Al-Azzawi 1969 IRAK' and signed, dated and insribed in Arabic (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
39 x 32in. (99 x 81cm.)
Painted in 1969
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owners.

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Lot Essay

Dia Azzawi studied art and archeology at the Faculty of Arts at Baghdad University. With encouragement from Jewad Selim, pioneer of modern Iraqi art, he began to combine techniques of contemporary painting with motifs drawn from the Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian heritage of Iraq, and with geometric patterning drawn and arabesque from the contemporary tribal culture of the desert. From the mid-1960s these elements formed the basis of his painting.

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