01 Work, The Art of War, Niki de Saint Phalle's La Mort, with footnotes

Niki de Saint Phalle, 1930 - 2002

La Mort, Death

Painted polyester

14 by 17 ½ by 11 in., 35.6 by 44.5 by 27.9 cm.

Private collection

Estimate for 40,000 - 60,000 USD in May 2024

Niki de Saint Phalle paired bold, jubilant, and cartoonish feminine forms with dark and disturbing material in her multifaceted artistic career. Throughout, she continually disrupted long-held conventions in art, and her iconoclastic approach to her identity and society at large made her an early and important voice to both the Feminist movement and the development of early Conceptual Art. Unlike many of her contemporaries who prioritized the idea behind the work of art rather than the aesthetic demonstration of the idea, Saint Phalle's pieces were highly expressive, visually bold, and often playful - a style that celebrated aesthetics instead of interrogating its structures and conventions. She realized some of the most ambitious, immersive sculptural environments of the 20th century, and also made intensely personal, inward-looking work that reflected on her inner life and relationships. Saint Phalle's broad influence is marked by the variety of contemporary cultural identities and communities that now 'claim' her as their own, including feminist, queer, and racial empowerment movements. More on Niki de Saint Phalle

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01 Work, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan, A father and his daughters, with footnotes

Henry Zaidan

A father and his daughters

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Hiding in a dimly lit cave, a father holds a lantern and tries to reassures his scared daughters of their well being and the inevitable end to the chaos they hear all around them.

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04 Works, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan's Alma Joins the Battle, with footnotes

Henry Zaidan

Alma Joins the Battle

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Alma, is a slim, curvaceous Arab warrior woman with dark red hair. Her exposed legs, arms, and midriff highlighting her warrior's resilience, the intricate armor barely covering yet enhancing her form, under the golden hour light, providing a hyper-realistic texture and colors to her skin.

Henry Zaidan

Alma Moves on from her first victim 

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Alma, adorned in ornate Arab armor, suffering battle weariness as mud dulls the sheen of her attire, clash with the enemy. Dust billowing against an arid battlefield backdrop...

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Alma in the thick of battle

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In the thick of battle, Almar is busy doing her job. She has the knowledge and confidence that his Job is part of a unified plan to defeat the enemy, but she does not have time to survey a campaign from a side lines

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The Battle is Over

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"And when the bat­tle’s ov­er, We shall wear a crown, In the new Je­ru­sa­lem" Is­aac Watts

Traditionally, the Bedouin were among the most dangerous of desert tribes, fighting among themselves when outsiders weren’t available. Constantly on the move to find new pastures for their livestock, they learned to live with the minimum of possessions and little external support in the harshest of lands. Loyalty to tribe and family was all that helped a warrior survive. More on Desert Warriors

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01 Work, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan, Hungry and desperate they hide from the carnage above, with footnotes

Henry Zaidan

A Mother

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A Mother suffused by the radiant light filtering softly through the depths of the cave, imbibing from a carafe thoughtfully offers what little water is left to her daughter. Her hair cascading around her, bathing in what little natural light the is; meanwhile, her child finding comfort in draping herself in her lap, their allure augmenting as they diminish...

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02 Works, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan, Alma and her warriors engage the enemy, with footnotes

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Alma and her warriors engage the enemy

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Alma and her warriors engage the enemy

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Traditionally, the Bedouin were among the most dangerous of desert tribes, fighting among themselves when outsiders weren’t available. Constantly on the move to find new pastures for their livestock, they learned to live with the minimum of possessions and little external support in the harshest of lands. Loyalty to tribe and family was all that helped a warrior survive. More on Desert Warriors

Alma, is a slim, curvaceous Arab warrior woman with dark red hair. Her exposed legs, arms, and midriff highlighting her warrior's resilience, the intricate armor barely covering yet enhancing her form, under the golden hour light, providing a hyper-realistic texture and colors to her skin.

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02 Works, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan, Alma and her warriors called to battle, with footnotes

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Alma and her warriors called to battle

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Alma and her warriors called to battle

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Traditionally, the Bedouin were among the most dangerous of desert tribes, fighting among themselves when outsiders weren’t available. Constantly on the move to find new pastures for their livestock, they learned to live with the minimum of possessions and little external support in the harshest of lands. Loyalty to tribe and family was all that helped a warrior survive. More on Desert Warriors

Alma, is a slim, curvaceous Arab warrior woman with dark red hair. Her exposed legs, arms, and midriff highlighting her warrior's resilience, the intricate armor barely covering yet enhancing her form, under the golden hour light, providing a hyper-realistic texture and colors to her skin.

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01 Painting, The Art of War, Leander Russ' The Turks Storm the Lion's Bastion, with Footnotes

Leander Russ, 1809-1864

The Turks Storm the Lion's Bastion, c. 1837

Oil on canvas

207 x 285 cms | 81 1/4 x 112 ins

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien | Austria

The Battle of Kahlenberg on September 12, 1683 ended the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna . A German - Polish relief army under the leadership of the Polish King John III. Sobieski defeated the Ottoman army . The defeat marked the beginning of the end of Turkish hegemonic politics . On the Christian side, the combined infantry and artillery of the alliance of Austria , Saxony , Bavaria , Baden and the Papal States as well as the Polish cavalry fought. More the battle

Leander Russ (25 November 1809, Vienna - 8 March 1864, Vienna) was an Austrian painter.

His father was the painter, Karl Russ. His sister, Clementine (1807–1869), also became an artist. After receiving his first art lessons at home, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, from 1823 to 1828, where he studied with Karl Gsellhofer and Josef Redl.

In 1828, he was awarded the Academy's Gundel-Prize for excellence and began participating in its exhibitions. In 1833, following study trips to Munich and Rome, he accompanied the diplomat, Anton von Prokesch-Osten, on a trip to the Middle East, which had a profound influence on his work. After 1841, he created numerous kaleidoscope images for Emperor Ferdinand I. He became a member of the Academy in 1848.

Portraits, historical scenes and genre works constitute the majority of his oeuvre. Watercolors were his favorite medium. His kaleidoscopic pictures gained wide popularity. Many of his works are of an Orientalist nature. More on Leander Russ

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01 Work, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan, Alma and her warriors called to battle, with footnotes

Henry Zaidan

Alma and her warriors called to battle

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After days in jail, Elma has finally escaped and is back in the desert, ready to pursue her harassment of the enemy.

Traditionally, the Bedouin were among the most dangerous of desert tribes, fighting among themselves when outsiders weren’t available. Constantly on the move to find new pastures for their livestock, they learned to live with the minimum of possessions and little external support in the harshest of lands. Loyalty to tribe and family was all that helped a warrior survive. More on Desert Warriors

Alma, is a slim, curvaceous Arab warrior woman with dark red hair. Her exposed legs, arms, and midriff highlighting her warrior's resilience, the intricate armor barely covering yet enhancing her form, under the golden hour light, providing a hyper-realistic texture and colors to her skin.

Lens flare effects emphasizing the urgency of her escape, a captured moment of freedom and defiance.

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01 Painting, African Artists, Art of War, Oussama Diabs Theatre, Gaza, with Footnotes

Oussama Diab, Palestinian, b. 1977

Theatre, Gaza, c. 2024

Mixed media on canvas

130 × 100 in | 330.2 × 254 cm

Private collection

On sale for US$4,600 in May 2024

Born in 1977, in Damascus, Oussama Diab is a Palestinian contemporary artist based in Lebanon. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus in 2002. Diab has worked through various painting styles, often combining different forms and techniques in a single composition.

His early works amassed paintings in a neo-expressionist style resonating with the tense ridicule language surrounding famed Jean Michel Basquiat's works. Onto large-scale canvases full of dispersed drawings and thick layers of paint in intense colors, the artist embraced iconography and primitivism with a flair of pop art. Diab re-appropriated Leonardo da Vinci's sixteenth-century Mona Lisa, for instance, adopting a Pop art approach – specifically by reintroducing identifiable imagery. Diab would add props and signs into his paintings, making them more relatable to the Palestinian experience. In this case, he would envelop Mona Lisa's face with a kufiyah, or at times she would hold a Kalashnikov.

In recent years, Diab applied the deconstructed figuration of Cubism to his archetypal characters painted in fresh pastel colors. He portrayed figures with intersecting planes that collide as rigid bodies, mirroring the surrounding environment. In reaction to the turmoil in the Arab world and the fragmented state of society forged by political conflicts and migration, Diab depicts fractured bodies within empty, isolated settings. In his neo-cubist paintings, a couple found in his previous works, become the center of attraction. The artist sets his characters against decorative and ornamental backgrounds that seem to extend out of his canvas with no beginning and no end. Although Diab's figurations attain a level of elegance and grace, they possess intense melancholy. More on Oussama Diab

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01 Painting, African Artists, Art of War, Mohamed Abdalla Otaybi's Against Violence, with Footnotes

Mohamed Abdalla Otaybi

Against Violence, c.  2017

Acrylic on canvas

79 * 80 cm

Private collection

Sold for £3,200 in May 2023

Mohamed Abdalla Otaybi was born in 1948 in Dewaim and now lives and works in Omdurman. He is a graphic designer, cartoonist and teacher, and one of the best-known contemporary artists in Sudan. He has had exhibitions in different parts of the world and has been awarded a couple of awards in Kuwait and the Emirates. His use of vivid bright colours and the black outlining of his shapes and figures make his paintings stand out from those of other painters. He has also illustrated two children’s story books, Sudanese Singers and Fatima Sugarcane, which have been published in both Arabic and French. He has participated in numerous exhibitions both personal and collective.

For the past few years, Otaybi has moved on from the theories of the School of Khartoum and Madrasat Al-Wahid. In particular, he has turned towards a view of art that is more global. This does not mean that he has abandoned the use of the aesthetic heritage of the Sudan as a starting point for his work. Rather, he is seeking to create art that demonstrates local culture but that can also communicate with the rest of the world.

Otaybi has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has received a number of prestigious awards, including the 1981 Kuwaiti Golden Sail Award, a prize at the 1993 Sharjah Biennial and the Gold Medal at the 2003 Cairo Biennale. More on Mohamed Abdalla Otaybi

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01 Work, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan's Days later Alma is still in her cell, with footnotes

Henry Zaidan

Days later Alma is still in her cell

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Alma, The Middle Eastern Warrior, languishes  in her cell, days after she was captured trying to take back the supplies stolen from her people!

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01 Work, The Art of War, Eugenio Lucas Velázquez's The Ambush, with footnotes

Eugenio Lucas Velázquez (1817–1870)

The Ambush, c.1850–1870

Oil on metal

H 35.5 x W 50.8 cm

Birmingham Museums Trust

The theme of travellers waylaid by bandits was a common one in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century painting as the Napoleonic wars brought chaos and lawlessness to many parts of Europe. Criminals, deserters and the remnants of defeated armies often turned to highway robbery as the social order collapsed. More on this painting

Eugenio Lucas Velázquez was a Spanish Romantic artist who best understood the art of Goya. 

He began training as a student of the San Fernando Academy. However, dissatisfied with the cold classicism taught at the academy, he preferred to study the great geniuses of Spanish painting first-hand and often went to the Museo del Prado to copy Velázquez and, above all, Goya, whose painting would leave a lasting mark on his style and artistic personality. 

In 1850 he painted the ceiling, no longer extant, of the opera house in Madrid and Queen Isabella II later appointed him honorary court painter and a knight of the order of Charles III.

Married since 1844, Lucas Velázquez separated from his wife in 1853 and the following year went to live with Francisca Villaamil, by whom he had four children. One of them, Eugenio Lucas Villaamil (1858–1918), followed – albeit with less talent and a considerably more eclectic personality – his father’s footsteps in both profession and style, and their works are sometimes confused with each other.

He died in Madrid on 11 September 1870. More on Eugenio Lucas Velázquez

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01 Work, Middle East Artists, LAILA SHAWA's THE SOUK IN GAZA, with footnotes

Laila Shawa, b. 1940, Palestinian

THE SOUK IN GAZA, c. 1965

Oil on canvas laid on board

48.5 by 70.5cm. 19 by 27½in.

Private collection

Sold for 12,600 GBP in October 2020

This canvas by internationally acclaimed artist, Laila Shawa is of considerable historical significance within her artistic oeuvre. ‘The Souk’ was part of Shawa’s first solo exhibition in Gaza in 1965 entitled ‘Contrast and Contradictions’ – one year after her graduation from the Academy of Fine Art in Rome. Thereafter, it was to become part of the collection of Rashad Shawa, the Mayor of Gaza and also the artist’s father. It remained there, in Gaza, until the house was destroyed but was salvaged and relocated to Bethlehem. More on this painting

Laila Shawa (Born Gaza 1940) graduated summa cum laude in Fine Arts from the Italian Accademia di Belle Arti in 1964 and received a diploma in plastic arts from the Accademia San Giacomo in Rome. From 1965 to 1967, she returned to Gaza to teach arts and crafts to underprivileged children. She now lives and works in London. As a Palestinian artist, Shawa’s concern is to reflect the political realities of her country, becoming, in the process, a chronicler of events. Her work is based on a heightened sense of realism and targets injustice and persecution wherever their roots may be.

Her work has been exhibited in Italy, Germany, Austria, and the United Kingdom, in most Arab countries, North Africa, Iraq, Russia, China, Japan, Malaysia and USA. She is represented in public and private collections across the world, including the National Galleries of Jordan and Malaysia, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the British Museum in London and the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. Her work is currently on tour in Brazil, in the Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil’s exhibition Isla, the first major exhibition of Islamic Art in Brazil. More on Laila Shawwa

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