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Baya Mahieddine — Untitled
Baya Mahieddine

Untitled

1982

Baya Mahieddine's watercolour on paper demonstrates the artist's characteristic lyrical approach to abstraction, blending organic forms with gestural mark making. Working primarily in watercolour throughout her career, Baya created luminous compositions that evoke natural phenomena and emotional states through fluid washes and spontaneous brushwork. This untitled work exemplifies her innovative contribution to modernist painting, particularly within the North African and Mediterranean artistic contexts of the mid twentieth century.

Medium
watercolour on paper

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Modern & Contemporary Middle East

October 22, 2024

Estimate: $10,000$15,000

Lot 7

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Baya Mahieddine, Untitled, 1982

Baya Mahieddine's watercolour on paper demonstrates the artist's characteristic lyrical approach to abstraction, blending organic forms with gestural mark making. Working primarily in watercolour throughout her career, Baya created luminous compositions that evoke natural phenomena and emotional states through fluid washes and spontaneous brushwork. This untitled work exemplifies her innovative contribution to modernist painting, particularly within the North African and Mediterranean artistic contexts of the mid twentieth century.

Medium
watercolour on paper
Year
1982
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Surrealism, 20th Century, Algerian Artist, Mixed Media, Intuitive abstraction, Female Perspective, Whimsical, Ceramics and painting, Figurative, Art Brut