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DIA AL-AZZAWI (B. 1939, BAGHDAD)
Mantiq al-tayr (The Conference of the Birds) No. 1
incised with the artist’s stamp, date and number ‘2008 AP I’ (to the right side)
bronze
1838 x 10 x 478in. (46.8 x 25.5 x 12.5cm.)
Executed in 2008, this work is artist's proof number one of two, aside from the edition of seven
Provenance
Dr Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Collection, Beirut (acquired directly from the artist).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
P. Laster and D. Al-Azzawi, Dia Al-Azzawi: Sculptures 1947-2011, Dubai 2011, p. 80 (illustrated in colour, p. 81).
S. Eigner (ed.), Artists of the Middle East: 1900 to Now, London 2025, p. 79, fig. 2 (illustrated in colour, p. 78).
Exhibited
Doha, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Dia Al-Azzawi: A Retrospective (From 1963 until Tomorrow), 2016-2017 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, p. 453).
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