Nima Sagharchi
Group Head
Lot 25
Mohammed Ghani Hikmat(Iraq, 1929-2011)Queen of the Desert
2 June 2021, 16:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£5,000 - £8,000
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Noor Soussi
Head of Department
Mohammed Ghani Hikmat (Iraq, 1929-2011)
Queen of the Desert
wooden sculpture
signed and dated 1967
Height: 64 cm
wooden sculpture
signed and dated 1967
Height: 64 cm
Footnotes
Provenance:
Property from a private collection, England
Formerly property from the collection of the renowned Iraqi architect Said Ali Madhloom (1921-2017)
Acquired directly from the artist by the above
"A main theme for Ghani was the life and pursuits of simple people, which he captured in stylized sculptures done largely in wood. In the late sixties, he did many semi-abstracted figures representing men and women derived in form from the shapes of Baghdadi graves and tombstones; there was in them a sense of life and fortitude, a rejection of the premonitions of death. In working on them the artist reaffirmed the necessity of drawing upon traditional local forms, employing their symbolic associations in addition to their purely structural motifs"
- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra