Tahia Halim (Egypt, 1919–2003)
02 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes — 2g
Two Girls
oil on board
46.5 x 46.5cm (18 5/16 x 18 5/16in).
Private collection
Both works by the artist were executed in the 1960s during the artist’s Nubian period. Halim visited Nubia twice in the early 1960s, once with her friend and colleague Cleopatra Shahata in 1961 and again with a group of fifty academics and artists in 1962 on a trip organised by Tharwat Okasha, the then Minister for Culture and National Guidance.
Both trips were to leave lasting impressions on Halim who worked closely with the inhabitants of Nubia to document and study their ways of life, their traditions and rituals. The main reason this trip was organised was to preserve in some way the area around Aswan which was due to be flooded upon completion of the High Dam. More on these paintings
2g
Two Girls
Oil on board
46.5 x 46.5cm (18 5/16 x 18 5/16in).
Private collection
Both works by the artist were executed in the 1960s during the artist’s Nubian period. Halim visited Nubia twice in the early 1960s, once with her friend and colleague Cleopatra Shahata in 1961 and again with a group of fifty academics and artists in 1962 on a trip organised by Tharwat Okasha, the then Minister for Culture and National Guidance.
Both trips were to leave lasting impressions on Halim who worked closely with the inhabitants of Nubia to document and study their ways of life, their traditions and rituals. The main reason this trip was organised was to preserve in some way the area around Aswan which was due to be flooded upon completion of the High Dam. More on these paintings
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