Asaad Arabi
Damascus1994

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Asaad Arabi
Syria, Damascus, active France, Paris, born 1941
Title: Damascus
Date Made: 1994
Medium: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 22 1/16 × 29 15/16 in. (56 × 76 cm); Frame: 28 3/4 × 36 5/8 × 1 3/16 in. (73 × 93 × 3 cm)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Accession Number: M.2013.39.3
Classification: Drawings
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
Curatorial Notes: Asaad Arabi belongs to the generation of Syrian artists who came of age during the 1960’s. Born in Damascus in 1941, Arabi lives and works in Paris but he continues to explore the dichotomy of life in Syria through his paintings. These three watercolors are concerned with the hidden world of Damascus and with contrasts and duality, such as those that exist between veiled and unveiled women, and between the exterior and interior of Damascene houses.
Selected Bibliography: Komaroff, Linda. "Islamic Art Now and Then." In Islamic Art: Past, Present, Future, edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, 26-56. New Haven, New York, and London: Yale University Press, 2019.

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Asaad Arabi
Syria, Damascus, active France, Paris, born 1941
Title: Damascus
Date Made: 1994
Medium: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 22 1/16 × 29 15/16 in. (56 × 76 cm); Frame: 28 3/4 × 36 5/8 × 1 3/16 in. (73 × 93 × 3 cm)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Accession Number: M.2013.39.3
Classification: Drawings
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
Curatorial Notes: Asaad Arabi belongs to the generation of Syrian artists who came of age during the 1960’s. Born in Damascus in 1941, Arabi lives and works in Paris but he continues to explore the dichotomy of life in Syria through his paintings. These three watercolors are concerned with the hidden world of Damascus and with contrasts and duality, such as those that exist between veiled and unveiled women, and between the exterior and interior of Damascene houses.
Selected Bibliography: Komaroff, Linda. "Islamic Art Now and Then." In Islamic Art: Past, Present, Future, edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, 26-56. New Haven, New York, and London: Yale University Press, 2019.