Lot 319
  • 319

Farid Belkahia

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Farid Belkahia
  • Untitled 
  • signed and dated F.Belkahia 1968
  • watercolour and acrylic on paper laid on board  
  • 69 by 51cm.; 27 1/8 by 20in.

Provenance

Collection of the Artist, Morocco
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1998 

Condition

This work is in very good condition. There are very minor pin hole size spots on the upper section of the work, inherent to the age and artist chosen medium. Colours The colours in the catalogue illustration are accurate, with the overall tonality being slightly softer in the original work.
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Catalogue Note

“ I wanted to find my cultural origins. I absolutely had to find  out where I came from as the Western culture I had encountered in Paris, which I  was completely at home with […] was very different to mine.”

Farid Belkahia cited in: Rajae Benchemsi, Farid Belkahia, Milan, 2013, p.14