Untitled (1972)
Description
Size: 70 x 50 cm; 27.5 x 19.7 in
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance
Private Collection, Jordan (acquired directly from the artist).
Authenticated on the back in 2017 by Ms Suhaila Darwish, the artist's wife.
Location
Amman, Jordan
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Description
Hafidh Al Droubi (1914-1991) was a pioneering Iraqi painter. He was born and raised in a conservative family from a modest neighbourhood in Baghdad. Yet he managed to obtain a grant from the Italian Government and studied at Rome’s Accademia Reale. In the aftermath of World War II, he pursued his training at Goldsmiths College in London.
Hafidh Al Droubi became a very active figure in the Iraqi art scene. He opened his studio to the public, joined the Pioneers group of artists and then the “Jama’et Baghdad lil Fann al-Hadith” (The Baghdad Modern Art Group) founded by Shakir Hassan Al-Said and Jawad Salim.
Al Droubi was for a long time associated with Impressionism. However, he absorbed multiple ways of painting that were introduced by Modernity, including Cubism and Orphism. Regarding his subjects, he was interested in daily life and street scenes as well as reconstitutions of Ancient Mesopotamian civilizations. This vivid painting is representative of his dual sensitivities, depicting through a geometrical scheme two women wearing traditional dresses and waving tambourines.
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