Sunrise–Sunset / Oil On Panel / 1983 / Property of ibrahimi collection

Iraqi Artist Kadhim HAIDAR
“The late Kadhem Hayder was a leading Iraqi artist with many talents, Though he worked as a stage designer, he was better known as an experimentalist painter who dealt with life and death through legendary symbols, His style is a blend of folk art, heritage, the American Pop-Art School and stage technical elements.
His most important concern was to be free, He did not want to be restricted by a certain idea or style, He used a variety of symbols uprooted from their time and planted as universal concepts”
Critic Farouq Yousif