Ghada with Canvas Behind, New York 2002

Details

Youssef Nabil (Egyptian, b. 1972)
Ghada with Canvas Behind, New York 2002
signed, numbered, inscribed and dated 'Youssef Nabil New York 5/10 2002' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
hand-coloured gelatin silver print
15 x 10in. (38.5 x 25.6cm.)
Executed in 2002, this work is number five from an edition of ten

Provenance

Private Collection, Europe. Anon. sale, Christie's Dubai, 19 April 2011, lot 76.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

J. Parry, "Youssef Nabil Time to be Alone" in Canvas, issue 1, Winter 2004-2005 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 126).
O. Zaya, Youssef Nabil I won't let you die, Ostfildern 2008 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 125).
S. Eigner, Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran, London 2010 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 290).

Exhibited

Cape Town, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Sleep in My Arms, 2007 (another from the edition exhibited).

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Lot Essay

I did lots of drawing before I started working in photography. My idea of combining painting and photography comes from this time. I knew that I wanted to work with photographs, but I also knew that I would like them to be seen as paintings. That's why I hand color my black-and-white prints. It was actually drawing that made me color my photographs.
(The artist in conversation with Ghada Amer, New York, June 2008, in O. Zaya, Youssef Nabil I won't let you die, Ostfildern 2008, p. 24.)

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