Khalid Al-Jadir (Iraqi, 1924-1988)

Crowded Street
Signed in Arabic lower right.
Oil on canvasboard, 13 x 16 in. (33.0 x 40.5 cm), framed.
Condition: Minor surface grime.

Provenance: Collection of Muhsin Sayyid Mahdi and Sarah Roche-Mahdi, Cambridge.

N.B. Muhsin Sayyid Mahdi (1926-2007), the James Richard Jewett Professor Emeritus of Arabic at Harvard University, was a renowned scholar of medieval Arabic and Islamic philosophy. He held visiting professorships at universities throughout the world, offering him and his wife, Sarah Roche-Mahdi, a scholar of medieval and Romantic European literature and thought, the opportunity to build a thoughtful and personally significant collection of art focused on works created in the region of his homeland, Iraq. In later years, the couple spent a great deal of time in Paris, where Mahdi lectured at the Institut du Monde Arabe, participated in seminars, and was a familiar and beloved figure in the cafes and bookshops frequented by intellectuals from all over the Muslim world, many of them former students.

Condition: Framed dimensions: 15 x 18 in.

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