Untitled

Details

Omar El-Nagdi (Egyptian, b. 1931)
Untitled
signed and dated in Arabic, signed and dated 'O.EL.NAGDI 72.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
60 7/8 x 38¾in. (154.5 x 98cm.)
Painted in 1972

Provenance

Safarkhan Gallery, Cairo.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.

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Lot Essay

'Omar El-Nagdi, Egyptian symbol and magician of colour. Omar El- Nagdi's painting proves that he is an exceptionally highly talented artist, especially for symbolic drawings, and that he rises up to the positive splendor of colour...Omar El-Nagdi's art is never purely decorative as the meaning he wishes to attribute to it is a combination of humanism and mystical expression, that reaches a much deeper level than that attained by the eye.'
(Eric Newton, The Guardian, London 1961, unpaged).

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