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Mahoud Ahmad 6.jpg
In this emotional composition, a woman crouches with fists clenched and face contorted. She is surrounded by piles of rumble that indicate the past of a lively civilization. The object of her distress appears to be a disembodied hand that lays…

Mahoud Ahmad 25 1974.jpg
This painting, by Mahoud Ahmad, centers on a nude female lying in the foreground with her back to the viewer. A stern-looking woman wearing a full head covering draws a blue marking upon the nude figure’s lower back while a group of women, of various…

Mahoud Ahmad 17.jpg
This group scene centers on a table where a majority of the figures sit with two of the participants gazing outside of the picture plane. The only man sits with an upright posture wearing a slight smirk upon his face, his head accentuated by a…

Mahoud Ahmad 21 1980.jpg
In this fantastic scene a man and a woman sleep on a beach while incoming waves lap against the shoreline. The man wears a head covering and sleeps crouching with his cheek resting on his arms. The nude female figure, appearing to be almost twice the…

Mahoud Ahmad 1 1976.jpg
In this painting, by Mahoud Ahmad, a nude female figure sleeps atop a four-post bed rendered in vibrant gold. The woman shares the same bluish marking bisecting her outer thigh as many of Ahmad’s other sleeping women and she lays on a decorated quilt…

Mahoud Ahmad 26 1982.jpg
The setting for this painting, by Mahoud Ahmad, is ambiguous as the figures float in a greenish haze that comprises the background of the composition. In the extreme left foreground, a man, rendered in distinct line, gazes out of the frame. A thick…

Mahoud Ahmad 27 1992.jpg
In this painted scene, by Mahoud Ahmad, the viewer’s eye is drawn to a woman in a formless white garment traversing the canvas carrying a lit lantern on her head. At the extreme forefront, two metallic poles protrude into the frame; whilst in the…

Mahoud Ahmad 33.jpg
In this still life, by Mahoud Ahmad, a series of mechanical parts are situated in a state of seeming disarray as wiry forms jut out from metal tubing. These parts, which perhaps make up the body of a lamp, are arranged on a table covered in a white…

Mahoud Ahmad 10.jpg
In the foreground of this emotive painting, by Mahoud Ahmad, a shackled wraith-like man weeps cradling a shovel. Just below him a black panther snarls with a claw raised to an American flag. In another vignette, a man sits smoking against a sandy…

Mahoud Ahmad 2.jpg
This painting, by Mahoud Ahmad, is composed of many different figures, in various states, overlapped to create a chaotic rendering of space and time. To the left, the face of a weeping woman is overlaid with a man in fatigues who crouches with his…
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