Origins

Origins

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Property from the Samawi Family Collection, Dubai

Samia Halaby

Blue Trap (in a Railroad Station)

Auction Closed

February 8, 06:44 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Samawi Family Collection, Dubai

Samia Halaby

b. 1936


Blue Trap (in a Railroad Station)

signed S Halaby (lower right); signed Samia A. Halaby, titled Blue Trap, dated 1977 and numbered 201 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

122 by 167.5 cm.

48 by 66 in.

Executed in 1977.

Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist)

Private Collection, USA (acquired directly from the above

in 1978)

Artnet Auctions, New York, 2010

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

M. Fahat, Samia Halaby: Five Decades of Painting and Innovation, London 2013, p. 85 (illustrated in color)

M. Fahat and Ayyam Gallery (eds.), Samia Halaby (Monograph), Damascus 2010, p. 95 (illustrated in color)

Sharjah, Sharjah Art Museum, Samia Halaby: Lasting Impressions, 20 September 2023 - 7 January 2024

London, Ayyam Gallery, Samia Halaby: Paintings from the Sixties and Seventies, 17 May - 16 July 2016

Beirut, Beirut Exhibition Center, Samia Halaby: Five Decades of Painting and Innovation, Beirut Exhibition Center, 2 - 26 February 2015

Dubai, Ayyam Gallery, Samia Halaby: Five Decades of Painting and Innovation, 19 February - 30 April 2014

New York, Samia Halaby Solo Exhibition, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, 1978


 

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