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gouache on paper

99 x 69 cm

signed (lower center)

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000

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Provenance

Private Collection, Beirut.

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Location

Beirut, Lebanon

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ABOUT Mouneer El-Shaarani

“My contemporary work draws its essence from the roots of Arabic calligraphy,” says Mouneer Al Shaarani. "I shed light on our calligraphic heritage by adding a critical look to it, to free it from its golden cage. Its inertia and the conventions [of calligraphy] have limited it to sacred texts, isolating it from all other social life. I thus...

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