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Halim Al-Karim — Goddess in Love (Triptych)
Halim Al-Karim

Goddess in Love (Triptych)

Halim Al-Karim's *Goddess in Love (Triptych)* presents a hauntingly ethereal female figure rendered across three panels, her form emerging from and dissolving into a soft, dreamlike haze. Al-Karim's signature photographic technique — in which his subjects are captured while veiled or submerged — produces an otherworldly blur that obscures yet intensifies the figure's presence. The work evokes themes of desire, mythology, and feminine power, suggesting a divine being whose beauty is felt more than seen.

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

February 11, 2014

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Halim Al-Karim, Goddess in Love (Triptych)

Halim Al-Karim's *Goddess in Love (Triptych)* presents a hauntingly ethereal female figure rendered across three panels, her form emerging from and dissolving into a soft, dreamlike haze. Al-Karim's signature photographic technique — in which his subjects are captured while veiled or submerged — produces an otherworldly blur that obscures yet intensifies the figure's presence. The work evokes themes of desire, mythology, and feminine power, suggesting a divine being whose beauty is felt more than seen.

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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Bold, Symbolic, Iraqi, Mixed Media, Goddess, Mythology, Modern, Triptych, Figurative, Contemporary

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