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Inji Efflatoun"Seated Prisoner VI" Pencil on Paper Drawing 7.5" x 11" in by Inji Efflatouncirca 1960
circa 1960
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"Seated Prisoner VI" Pencil on Paper Drawing 7.5" x 11" in by Inji Efflatoun
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From the "Prison Period"
After transformative incident, Inji’s resolve to play a leading role in her country’s turbulent political environment was only strengthened, as she thrust herself into this progressive anti-establishment stance. In 1959, the most defining moment of Inji’s life came when she was imprisoned for four years, serving her sentence across a series of women’s prisons in the deserts surrounding Cairo. To this day, Inji’s prison years remain, in such an eventful and inspiring life, her most remarkable period, a legacy to not only her acumen as an artist but her exemplary and persevering nature as a human being above all else.
Critics as a result consider this period as having produced many of Inji most celebrated and emotionally challenging works. Her palette, manipulation of light and shadow, vivid expressionism and thoughtful subject matter all served to show her true ingenuity as an artist, as she became perfectly positioned to devote her talents to her most dearly-held personal convictions as an inmate amongst women prisoners serving time for disparate, although also presumably unjust, reasons. The paintings of this period embodied a candid emotional quality that seeped out of these canvases portraying the grim realities of prison life, not least for women in Nasser’s Egypt.
The ever-present cell bars became a frequent motif across these works, adding a depth of perspective yet simultaneously a pronounced separation between the viewer and the subjects of these works. Another constant motif that Inji would repeatedly portray was the ‘Inji Tree,’ which she painted a multitude of times often in different colors and mediums. This arboreal subject which would always appear as a similar rendition of the same tree became subsequently known as the ‘Inji Tree’ since it was the only tree she could see outside of her small cell window while incarcerated. As a result, Inji habitually returned to depicting this motif as a meditative practice as she sought to find what little beauty and optimism there was to cling onto during these trying years.
The works that Inji produced throughout this time are often considered to be the highlight of her career partially due to their value as documentary evidence and perhaps also because they are testament to her struggle and survival during incarceration. Although a cruel and unforgiving experience, for Inji, her prison period as it so happened, became the perfect vehicle through which to demonstrate most impactfully and poignantly the plight of Egypt’s disadvantaged, impoverished and discriminated in a way that solidified her pioneering status as Egypt’s first female artist-activist.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibitions of the Avant grade "Art and Freedom Group". This was the first society that attempted to free modern Egyptian art from the bonds of academism and formalism prevailing then.
In March 1952, she had her first one-person exhibition in Cairo and since then, she held 28 solo shows in Egypt and abroad. She has exhibited in Rome in 1967, at the "Paese Nove" gallery, in Paris at the "Galerie de l’Universite" in Dresden, East Germany, Warsaw, Poland, Moscow, and Prague. She held a one-person show in 1979, in New Delhi, India, in 1981 at the Egyptian Academy in Rome, and in 1988 in Kuwait. She has also participated in group exhibitions such as the Biennale of Sao Paolo in 1953, the Biennale of Venice in 1968, and the Contemporary Egyptian Art exhibition in Paris in 1971.
In 1975, Mrs. Eflatoun helped organize the "Ten Egyptian Woman Artist in half a Century" exhibition, held in Cairo on the occasion of the International year for woman, and in which she took part. In 1976 she was in charge of the Egyptian Pavillion at the 87th "Salon des Independants" in Paris, in the Grand Palais.
The artist’s works were acquired by the Modern art Museum in Cairo, in Alexandria, and in Dresden, the National Museum in Warsaw and by the Oriental Museum in Sophia, the Pushkin Museum in Sophia, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Italian Deputies Council and by private collectors in Egypt and abroad.
In 1986, she was awarded by the French Ministry of Culture a medal of merit called "Cavalier of the Arts and Literature".
Inji Eflatoun died in 1989.
- Creator:Inji Efflatoun (1924 - 1989, Egyptian)
- Creation Year:circa 1960
- Dimensions:Height: 7.5 in (19.05 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Culver City, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1085113394992
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