Iraqi Modernism - Ghazi Saudi

Ghazi Saudi (Iraq)

Untitled 

oil on canvas, framed

signed "Ghazi Saudi" and dated "1960" (bottom), executed in 1960

77 x 60cm (30 5/16 x 23 5/8in).

• "The city of Ghazi al Saudi , today's Baghdad, is the actual place implanted in a time that goes back some eight hundred years. Al Wasiti's illustrations of Maqamat al Hariri have been a constant inspiration for him, not only in his smaller canvases and ceramics, but also in his large frescoes, where he employs the old Arab gold, blue and red with black outlines in the representation of cit-scapes translated into a modern idiom" More