• Humanity 1996
  • oil on board
  • Painting
  • 44 * 52 cm
  • Signed "Gazbia" in Arabic and English and dated "96" (lower left)
    Framed
Estimation
£18,000
22,576 USD
- £30,000
37,627 USD
Realized Price
£28,020
35,144 USD
16.75%
Artwork Description

"Notwithstanding the historical significance of her art—and the international recognition that has come with a record of seventy-five-plus one-woman shows across continents— Sirry is surprisingly under-studied, and her art is described predominantly in technical terms centered on "color." The quintessence of life and political statements, however, seems to have been ignored, if not entirely missed. Educated in Egypt and Europe, Sirry built one of the most influential careers in twentieth-century modern Arab art.

Divided into three overlapping phases, her paintings blur art and politics as they narrate the story of societies vacillating between triumph and defeat, dignity and humiliation, social justice and inequality. Sirry arguably birthed a new identity that makes no distinction between seeing and militancy. As she fluidly moved between styles, this "childless" grande dame became the national godmother to an entire nation"

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Realized Price 34,839 USD
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Average Artwork Worth
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Average Growth of Artwork Worth
Sales Performance Against Estimates
Average & Median Sold Lot Value
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Performance vs. Estimate
2020 - 2024
Sell-through Rate
2020 - 2024
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