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Title not known (Ahmad 11)
In this composition, by Mahoud Ahmad, the forms are rendered in an ambiguous space where the sky and ground merge into one. The figures appear to be floating on a liquid surface of fluid blues. The fantasy-like scene is made up of a nude sleeping…
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Title not known (Ahmad 12)
The main figure in this painting, by Mahoud Ahmad, is a lean yet muscular man, clothed simply in rolled trousers, carrying an uprooted palm tree on his back. The man’s facial expression is not one of strain despite the supposed effort of baring such…
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Title not known (Ahmad 13)
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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Title not known (Ahmad 14)
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…
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Title not known (Ahmad 15)
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…
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Title not known (Ahmad 16)
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…
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Title not known (Ahmad 17)
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…
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Title not known (Ahmad 18)
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…
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Title not known (Ahmad 19)
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…
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Title not known (Ahmad 20)
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…
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