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Item Ships From: Africa
"Multicolor Dervish" Figurative Painting 55" x 34" inch by Rana Chalabi
Located in Culver City, CA
"Multicolor Dervish" Figurative Painting 55" x 34" inch by Rana Chalabi
Rana Chalabi is an established Syrian/Lebanese artist who lived in Cairo for over 35 years and now lives betw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Day's Toil" Oil Painting 16" x 24" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Day's Toil" Oil Painting 16" x 24" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has been painting for three decades and has nota...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
"Minaret" Painting 43" x 37" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Located in Culver City, CA
"Minaret" Painting 43" x 37" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Born 1989, Mohamed Hussein is a Fayoum native whose semi-abstract landscape and urban vistas are captured with a cultured palett...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Favela I" Painting 17" x 20" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Located in Culver City, CA
"Favela I" Painting 17" x 20" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Born 1989, Mohamed Hussein is a Fayoum native whose semi-abstract landscape and urban vistas are captured with a cultured palet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Kafr Shokr Farmhouse" Pastel Painting 10" x 12" in (1978) by Inji Efflatoun
By Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Kafr Shokr Farmhouse" Pastel Painting 10" x 12" in (1978) by Inji Efflatoun
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibitions of the Av...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
"Hummas Merchant" (FRAMED) Figuraive Oil Painting 35 x 35 in by Omar Abdel Zaher
Located in Culver City, CA
"Hummas Merchant" (FRAMED) Figuraive Oil Painting 35 x 35 in by Omar Abdel Zaher
Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has been painting for three dec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Treasure Walk" Abstract Painting 39" x 59" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
By Ahmed Dafrawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Treasure Walk" Abstract Painting 39" x 59" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
Dafrawy’s fine arts academic background started in 2014 when he received the certificate of drawing course complet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Fayoum Studio 1" Oil Painting 35" x 39" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fayoum Studio 1" Oil Painting 24" x 32" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood and finished school. In 1973 h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Above the City II" Abstract Painting 33" x 47" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Located in Culver City, CA
"Above the City II" Abstract Painting 33" x 47" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Born 1989, Mohamed Hussein is a Fayoum native whose semi-abstract landscape and urban vistas are captured wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Cactus and Man" Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 43" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cactus and Man" Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 43" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his ch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Farmer" Portrait Oil Painting 16" x 12" inch by Shaaban Zaki
By Shaaban Zaki
Located in Culver City, CA
"Farmer" Portrait Oil Painting 16" x 12" inch by Shaaban Zaki
circa 1930
Signed.
Shaaban Zaki came from a lower-middle-class family who was mostly government employees, but he was...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Nile by Night VI" Abstract Oil Painting 15" x 24" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Nile by Night VI" Abstract Oil Painting 15" x 24" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood and finished school...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
"Pharaoh's Crypt" Abstract Painting 59" x 43" in by Ibrahim Khatab
By Ibrahim Khatab
Located in Culver City, CA
"Pharaoh's Crypt" Abstract Painting 59" x 43" in by Ibrahim Khatab
mixed media on wood
Ibrahim Khatab was born in Cairo 1984, works as a co-teacher in Cairo University, he mixes be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood
"Portrait in Blue" Oil Painting 15" x 16" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
By Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait in Blue" Oil Painting 15" x 16" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
ARTIST BIO:
Zamzami was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Minya, having garnered acclaim in his native Egypt and abroad for his art’s refreshing purity and strikingly innocent yet substantive nature. Zamzami has since produced arguably some of the best work of his career, in a class of its own amongst contemporary Egyptian...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"India II" Figurative Oil Painting 16" x 20" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"India II" Figurative Oil Painting 16" x 20" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
"Untitled 98" Abstract Painting 79" x 55" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
By Ahmed Dafrawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 98" Abstract Painting 79" x 55" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
Dafrawy’s fine arts academic background started in 2014 when he received the certificat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"A walk of life 1" Abstract Painting 47" x 47" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
By Ahmed Dafrawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"A walk of life 1" Abstract Painting 47" x 47" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
Dafrawy’s fine arts academic background started in 2014 when he received the certificate of drawing course comp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Arabian Cafe II” Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 47"in by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Arabian Cafe II” Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 47"in by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concep...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Fayoum Studio 3" Figurative Oil Painting 27.5" x 31" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fayoum Studio 3" Figurative Oil Painting 27.5" x 31" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood and finished scho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Japanese Vista I" Landscape Painting 8" x 12" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Japanese Vista I" Landscape Painting 8" x 12" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Techniques
Bakhoum often paints on canvases that have been prepared with various materials. She gener...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass, Pastel, Mixed Media
"Waiting I" Figurative Painting 27" x 21" inch by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Waiting I" Figurative Painting 27" x 21" inch by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Ink & Acrylic on Paper.
Signed & dated
The selection of Abd Elmalak’s drawings is reflective of a compositional method that is based on free-flowing and distinct lines and contours that he uses to amalgamate caricature-Esque female figures with monuments and landmarks from his travels, script, animals, and natural elements into interconnected and unified tapestries. His selected paintings explore themes of entrapment, companionship, oppression, emancipation, and faith, which he explores and animate through his demure and virtuous women subjects...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
"Prickly Pear Ears II" Abstract Painting 39" x 39" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Located in Culver City, CA
"Prickly Pear Ears II" Abstract Painting 39" x 39" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Yasmine Hassan’s still life portrayals of cacti and other stark foliage can scarcely be described as such, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Embracing" Abstract Painting 24" x 47" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Located in Culver City, CA
"Embracing" Abstract Painting 24" x 47" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Yasmine Hassan’s still life portrayals of cacti and other stark foliage can scarcely be described as such, given that ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"El Moez Street 2" Abstract Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
By Ahmed Dafrawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"El Moez Street 2" Abstract Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
Dafrawy’s fine arts academic background started in 2014 when he received the certificate of drawing course co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Potted Cactus" Oil Painting 47" x 55" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Potted Cactus" Oil Painting 47" x 55" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood and finished school. In 1973 he ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cactus Miniature II" Oil Painting 12" x 10" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cactus Miniature II" Oil Painting 12" x 10" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his chil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Abstract Visage VIII" Portrait Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
By Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Visage VIII" Portrait Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
ABOUT
A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"AD 1.23" Abstract Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
By Ahmed Dafrawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"AD 1.23" Abstract Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
Dafrawy’s fine arts academic background started in 2014 when he received the certificate of drawing course completion ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Offering I" Figurative Oil Painting 20" x 27.5" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Offering I" Figurative Oil Painting 20" x 27.5" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has been painting for three decades...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dark Impressionistic Oil on Canvas Figurative Night Scene "Farm Watch"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique oil painting, drawing heavily from the post-impressionist movement.
A gloomy night-time scene, typical of Glanville's work.
Oil on stretched canvas, ready to hang. Shadow f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dark Impressionist Oil on Canvas Street Scene "Out There"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique oil painting, drawing heavily from the post-impressionist movement. A gloomy night-time street scene, typical of Glanville's work.
Oil on stretched canvas, ready to hang. Sh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled 102" Abstract Painting 31" x 24" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
By Ahmed Dafrawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 102" Abstract Painting 31" x 24" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
Dafrawy’s fine arts academic background started in 2014 when he received the certifica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Impressionist Oil on Canvas Street Scene "Street Seller"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique oil painting, drawing heavily from the post-impressionist movement.
A gloomy night-time street scene, typical of Glanville's work.
Oil on stretched canvas, ready to hang.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Egyptology" Figurative Painting 11" x 9" inch (1987) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Egyptology" Figurative Painting 11" x 9" inch (1987) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Emancipation, 1987
Ink on Paper.
Signed & dated
The selection of Abd Elmalak’s drawings is reflective...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"India I" Figurative Oil Painting 16" x 21" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"India I" Figurative Oil Painting 16" x 21" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood and finished school. In 19...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
"Windows" Painting 71" x 47" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Located in Culver City, CA
"Windows" Painting 71" x 47" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Born 1989, Mohamed Hussein is a Fayoum native whose semi-abstract landscape and urban vistas are ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Alpine Village I" Pastel on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
By Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Alpine Village III" Pastel on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
signed & dated
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhib...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
"India III" Painting 16" x 20" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"India III" Painting 16" x 20" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood and finished school. In 1973 he moved to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
"The Hourglass" Abstract Painting 39" x 27.5" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
By Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Hourglass" Abstract Painting 39" x 27.5" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old masters.
Abdel Malak textured oils are a celebration of the female identity in every sense of the word. His beautiful faces and suave figures grace the canvases together embracing our Egyptian architectural monuments creating a powerful dialogue between women’s identity, her rights, her suffering and our heritage and what it holds in its historical meanings and the deteriorating state.
Graduate from the faculty of Fine Arts, Minia University, Graphic Design Department. Illustrator for Sabah El Kheir & Rosalyoussef, Egyptian local magazines.
Practice Sculpture.
Participant in the 1st Child’s Biennale workshop “Fantasia 1”, Cairo 2003.
Won the silver medal in the International Competition of “SHANKERS World Association”, India 1993.
Exhibitions:
Private Art Works Exhibition at Cairo Gallery, 2001.
Public Exhibition at Ahmed Shawky Museum, Cairo 2001.
Public Exhibition at Mahmoud Said...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Mixed Media
"Tree in Mist” Landscape Oil Painting 12" x 12" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Tree in Mist” Landscape Oil Painting 12" x 12" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Swiss Countryside II" Landscape Oil Painting 8" x 12" inch by Inji Efflatoun
By Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Swiss Countryside II" Landscape Oil Painting 8" x 12" inch by Inji Efflatoun
circa 1950
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibiti...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Prickly Pear Ears I" Abstract Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Located in Culver City, CA
"Prickly Pear Ears I" Abstract Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Yasmine Hassan’s still life portrayals of cacti and other stark foliage can scarcely be described as such,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Dreamcatcher" Mixed media Painting 79" x 24" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
By Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Dreamcatcher" Mixed media Painting 79" x 24" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old mast...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood, Oil
"Portrait Boy" Oil Painting 14.5" x 20" inch (1930) by Shaaban Zaki
By Shaaban Zaki
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait Boy" Oil Painting 14.5" x 20" inch (1930) by Shaaban Zaki
signed & dated
Shaaban Zaki came from a lower-middle-class family who was mostly government employees, but he wa...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Arabian Nights" Figurative Painting 9" x 12" inch (1997) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Arabian Nights" Figurative Painting 9" x 12" inch (1997) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Emancipation, 1991
Ink on Paper.
Signed & dated
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Abd Elmalak’s diverse portfolio exemplifies not only his versatility, but perhaps even more importantly his unique ability to blend the conventional and unconventional in thoughtful harmony, which esteemed Modernist and author Hussein Bicar (1913-2002) deemed a “highly intelligent duality between the kinetics of the universe and its stillness.”
The selection of Abd Elmalak’s drawings is reflective of a compositional method that is based on free-flowing and distinct lines and contours that he uses to amalgamate caricature-Esque female figures with monuments and landmarks from his travels, script, animals, and natural elements into interconnected and unified tapestries. His selected paintings explore themes of entrapment, companionship, oppression, emancipation, and faith, which he explores and animate through his demure and virtuous women subjects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Beacon
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Craig Cameron-Mackintosh is a South African contemporary painter and filmmaker recognised for his distinctive oil portraits. His artistic journey began in 2015, after a decade-long h...
Category
2010s Photorealist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
"Man and Beast" Painting 45" x 59" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Man and Beast" Painting 45" x 59" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood and fi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Alpine Village III" Pastel on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
By Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Alpine Village III" Pastel on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
signed & dated
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhib...
Category
20th Century Post-War Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
"Lady in Waiting I" Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 35" in by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lady in Waiting I" Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 35" in by Yousra Hafad
Yousra Hafad is a young artist who excels in portraiture and particularly the me...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cactus in Blue" Oil Painting 35" x 26" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cactus in Blue" Oil Painting 35" x 26" inch by Mohamed Abla
Oil on canvas.
Signed by the Artist.
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Expectation II" Figurative Oil Painting 48" x 25.5" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
By Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Expectation II" Figurative Oil Painting 48" x 25.5" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
ABOUT
A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sur la Terrace” Oil Painting 25.5" x 25.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Sur la Terrace” Oil Painting 25.5" x 25.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept and the subject of the orientalism and the enchantment of that period. Through her work we can feel the researches she has done to reveal her Egyptian origins and the magic and power of the bygone times. Katherine Bakhoum has succeeded in imprinting her own stamp to evoke a new world full of charm, nostalgia and magic that is deeply implanted in her canvas. Her power dwells in creating her own style of contemporary expressionism building upon the old orientalism.
Katherine Bakhoum’s art comes up out of an Egyptian childhood and from the distance of a life spent in France. What is left unsaid is as important as what is shown. Decorative yes, as in old orientalism, when everything was texture and what wasn’t texture was veiled, a reincarnation of old spirits, dervishes, orientalist motifs and the stuff of a once powerful civilization, the better to suggest it all might just come to life again.
The choice of ancient subject matters, the echo of orientalist pieces in the collages, like the echo of the appeal of ancient gestures, of foreign lands, and domestic tapestries, all this weaves up out of Katherine Bakhoum’s creations. Sometimes we only have the line of a horizon on which to hang our imagination, sometimes we only have the trace of a profile in the shadows. What we always have is a persistent belief in beauty.
Where there is beauty, there is hope. Katherine Bakhoum has abandoned neither.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Claudine Legrand Gallery: Annual exhibitions from 1996 to 2016
Safar Khan Gallery, Cairo: Annual exhibitions from 1999 to 2018
Galerie la Sirène, Le Mans 2010
Galerie Ghislaine Eonnet-Dupuy, St Briac 2008 2009
Green art gallery Dubai 2009
Galerie La Medina, Tunis 2001
Italian Cultural Institute, Cairo 1999
Gallery Lézard d'Ailleurs 1998
Influence Gallery 1997
Bruno Delarue Gallery Etretat 1997
Jolymont workshops in Brussels 1996
Gallery Lézard d'Ailleurs St Rémy de Provence 1995
Etienne Causans Gallery 1995
Gallery Art 50 1994
Gallery Art 50 1993
Anne Vignial Gallery 1992
Galerie Escalier Rouge, Ouagadougou 2002
City of Arts, Florence Foundation 1992
Galerie Peinture Fraiche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cactus in Beige" Oil Painting 27.5" x 24" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cactus in Beige" Oil Painting 27.5" x 24" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood and finished school. In 1973...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Les Oliviers” Landscape Oil Painting 12" x 12" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Les Oliviers” Landscape Oil Painting 12" x 12" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Macbeth Stagecraft I" Watercolor on cartoon 10" x 14" in by Salah Abdel Kerim
By Salah Abdel Kerim
Located in Culver City, CA
"Macbeth Stagecraft I" Watercolor on cartoon 10" x 14" in by Salah Abdel Kerim
Born in Fayoum to a big family of 5 brothers and sisters. In 1938 he meets the famous painter Hussein Bikar and he becomes his student in the Faculty of Arts in Qena. He remained much attached to his professor all through his life. In 1940 he meets Hussein Youssef Amin and the Group of Contemporary Art at the secondary school of Farouk First in Abasya district in Cairo when he was introduced to surrealism for the first time. In 1943 he becomes a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts and graduates with excellence and honors in 1947. In 1948 he becomes an assistant to the interior decoration section at the FFA. He is then sent to a mission in Paris in 1952 and he becomes a student to Paul Colin and A.Marie Cassandre for publicity and theatre design. He then moves to Rome in 1956 to study cinema design. In 1957 he received the international prize in painting from San Vito Romano, Italy, and obtains his Ph.D. from Centro Sperimental di Cinemato Grafia. Back in Egypt in 1958, he is appointed professor at the FFA where he started experimenting with his masterpieces sculptures in wrote iron...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
"Fayoum Lake Miniature II" Landscape Painting 20" x 25" inch by Mohamed Abla
By Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fayoum Lake Miniature II" Landscape Painting 20" x 25" inch by Mohamed Abla
Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood and finished s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
"Still Life with Yarn" (FRAMED) Painting 16" x 16" inch by Ahmed Saber
By Ahmed Saber
Located in Culver City, CA
"Still Life with Yarn" (FRAMED) Painting 16" x 16" inch by Ahmed Saber
ink on paper
AHMED SABER - BIO
Ahmed Saber is an Egyptian artist based in Luxo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
"Derviche II” Painting in Glass Frame 31" x 31" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
By Katherine Bakhoum-Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Derviche II” Painting in Glass Frame 31" x 31" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept and the subject of the orientalism and the enchantment of that period. Through her work we can feel the researches she has done to reveal her Egyptian origins and the magic and power of the bygone times. Katherine Bakhoum has succeeded in imprinting her own stamp to evoke a new world full of charm, nostalgia and magic that is deeply implanted in her canvas. Her power dwells in creating her own style of contemporary expressionism building upon the old orientalism.
Katherine Bakhoum’s art comes up out of an Egyptian childhood and from the distance of a life spent in France. What is left unsaid is as important as what is shown. Decorative yes, as in old orientalism, when everything was texture and what wasn’t texture was veiled, a reincarnation of old spirits, dervishes, orientalist motifs and the stuff of a once powerful civilization, the better to suggest it all might just come to life again.
The choice of ancient subject matters, the echo of orientalist pieces in the collages, like the echo of the appeal of ancient gestures, of foreign lands, and domestic tapestries, all this weaves up out of Katherine Bakhoum’s creations. Sometimes we only have the line of a horizon on which to hang our imagination, sometimes we only have the trace of a profile in the shadows. What we always have is a persistent belief in beauty.
Where there is beauty, there is hope. Katherine Bakhoum has abandoned neither.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Claudine Legrand Gallery: Annual exhibitions from 1996 to 2016
Safar Khan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Africa - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass, Mixed Media
