Faik Hassan (1914-1992) | Ibrahimi Collection

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Title:

Portrait of a Woman

Medium:

Oil on Board

Date of creation:

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Title:

Sketch of the Picnic Painting

Medium:

Charcoal on Carton

Date of creation:

Ca. 1940s

Artwork Commentary:

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Picnic

Medium:

Oil on Masonite

Date of creation:

Ca. 1940s

Artwork Commentary:

In this work, the artist wanted to take an impressionistic approach through light distribution and the firmness and strength of short brush strokes by applying color smears through which he forms a suggestive form and from an expert mixture of colors that transports us to his masterful worlds. The artist reaches perfection, accuracy, and reduction when his confidence in his eyes, hand, and brush merge, reaching the point of intuition and spontaneity. This is what can be called the easy abstain. Faik Hassan fills his work with movement and dynamism that transports the viewer to the warmth and liveliness of the scene, where nature, trees, sun, and children play, gather around their relaxed family, in the midst of which sits a samovar tea indispensable on such Baghdadi trips among the orchards and fields.

▪ Published in "Memory of Color - Faik Hassan" by Kassim Muhsin, Pg 341, Edition 2016.
▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Sketch

Medium:

Charcoal on Carton

Date of creation:

Ca. 1940s

Artwork Commentary:

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

The Sale of Odalisques

Medium:

Oil on Canvas

Date of creation:

1941

Artwork Commentary:

The work is from the personal collection of the late artist Farouk Abdel Aziz, which he acquired directly from Faik Hassan; it is painted on a piece of coarse brown canvas, indicating his influence on the post-impressionist style while preserving the privacy that he drew in his works in harmony and balance in the use of color and light. Faik Hassan excelled in using his delicate brush, through which he distributed complex and gradient color combinations, deftly representing shadow and light on the bodies and clothes of his characters. Intentional, reduced, calculated, and conscious brushstrokes away from spontaneous immediacy in a scene that surrounds the artist with life and gives him a renewed spirituality.
Faik Hassan draws inspiration from oriental tales and narrations about scenes from “The Sale of Odalisques,” where he consolidates his drawing skills on the surface of this work with the strokes of an experienced master who knows the secrets of color and the secrets of the sites of manifestation in one of his masterpieces.
The work is documented with a certificate issued by the Department of Arts in the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and Information, dated February, 18th 1997, and signed by a committee consisting of the late Mohammad Ghani Hikmat, Ismail Al-Cheikhli, and Noori Al-Rawi. Experts who documented this impressionist work of the late Faik Hassan estimate that it was painted around 1941, three years after his return from Paris after completing his studies.

▪ Published in "Memory of Color - Faik Hassan" by Kassim Muhsin, Pg 339, Edition 2016.
▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

On the Shores of Bretagne

Medium:

Oil on Board

Date of creation:

Ca. 1950s

Artwork Commentary:

▪ The artist did this work during his stay in Paris at La Bernerie-Saint Lazar, per the Book of Dr. Khalid AlQassab, Pg 52.

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Representation of a Family

Medium:

Oil on Board

Date of creation:

Ca. 1950s

Artwork Commentary:

▪ The artist did this work during his stay in Paris at La Bernerie-Saint Lazar, per the Book of Dr. Khalid AlQassab, Pg 52.

▪ Published in "Memory of Color - Faik Hassan" by Kassim Muhsin, Pg 228, Edition 2016.

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Landscape

Medium:

Watercolors on Carton

Date of creation:

1951

Artwork Commentary:

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Man Sitting in a Café

Medium:

Pastel on Carton

Date of creation:

1952

Artwork Commentary:

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Girl

Medium:

Gouache on Carton

Date of creation:

Ca. 1960s

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Title:

Baghdadi Market

Medium:

Oil on Canvas

Date of creation:

Ca. 1960s

Artwork Commentary:

▪ Published in "Memory of Color - Faik Hassan", by Kassim Muhsin, Pg 125, Edition 2016.

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Abstract

Medium:

Mixed Media on Carton

Date of creation:

1963

Artwork Commentary:

Since the beginning of the 1950s, Faik Hassan revealed his ingenuity in striking a balance between European references and the continuous bias towards social references in Iraq that exemplified a great deal of his achievement to this day. He also had an artistic vision in electing his various subjects according to an abstract style, and the artist commenced, from 1955 to 1970, the reduction of details, approaching abstraction.

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Untitled

Medium:

Oil on Canvas

Date of creation:

1964

Artwork Commentary:

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

The Villagers

Medium:

Acrylic on Board

Date of creation:

1965

Artwork Commentary:

▪ Published in "Memory of Color - Faik Hassan" by Kassim Muhsin, Pg 255, Edition 2016.

▪ Published in "Rafa Nasiri: Fifty Years Between East and West" by May Muzaffar.

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Ghawi

Medium:

Oil on Canvas

Date of creation:

1967

Artwork Commentary:

The model in this painting is a simple struggling person who is popular and loved by everyone in Al-Jumhuriya Newspaper with the name Ghawi.

▪ Published in "Memory of Color - Faik Hassan" by Kassim Muhsin, Pg 312, Edition 2016.

▪ Published in "Rafa Nasiri: Fifty Years Between East and West" by May Muzaffar, Pg 119.

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Iraqi Woman

Medium:

Oil on Board

Date of creation:

1968

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Title:

Woman in Baghdad

Medium:

Oil on Canvas

Date of creation:

1969

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Title:

The Indigo Dyer

Medium:

Oil on Canvas

Date of creation:

1970

Artwork Commentary:

Standing in the center of the artwork with his white Dishdasha, stained with his favorite dye colors, girdling his old leather belt, wearing the mantle that he wrapped in the way Baghdadis inherited from their Akkadian and Babylonian ancestors. He put the indigo color, his tools, and his modest dyes and began to dye his fabrics using his hand, strength, and movement skill.
From the artist’s palette full of dark colors, which he can use with experienced skill, he paints on the surface of his canvas this nostalgia for moving and familiar days in the old khans that have aged in the narrow alleys of Baghdad; Faik Hassan excels at distributing shadow and light with the perfection of an untiring academic painter. He has addressed this topic in many works in various ways and volumes.

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Baghdadi Chalghi

Medium:

Oil on Canvas

Date of creation:

1972

Artwork Commentary:

The Baghdadi Chalghi is a small folk band that was, and still does, accompany the reciters of the Oriental Maqam. It comprises oriental musical instruments (Santor, Jawza, Tabla, and Raq). The Chalghi players play and chant, as a group, at the end of each section in the Maqam. The word (Chalghi) is an Arabic word that became a term for this folk song, and the band performed it. Faik Hassan documented the familiar Baghdadi costumes in the 1950s and 1960s, such as the Baghdadi Charawiyah, the Fez, the Abaya, and the Arabic Dishdasha (Thobe).

▪ Published in "Memory of Color - Faik Hassan" by Kassim Muhsin, Pg 147, Edition 2016.

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Portrait of an Iraqi Woman

Medium:

Pastel on Carton

Date of creation:

1975

Artwork Commentary:

▪ Published in “Memory of Color - Faik Hassan” by Kassim Muhsin, Pg 41, Edition 2016 ▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023

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Title:

Portrait of a Lady

Medium:

Pastel on Carton

Date of creation:

1975

Artwork Commentary:

▪ Published in “Memory of Color - Faik Hassan” by Kassim Muhsin, Pg 41, Edition 2016.

▪ Published in MAKOU Magazine, Issue No. 1, Mar.2023.

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Title:

Portrait of Artist's Uncle, Fadel Abdul Ghani

Medium:

Mixed Media on Carton

Date of creation:

1975

Artwork Commentary:

Faik Hassan lived as an orphan, and his uncle Fadel Abdul Ghani, who worked in the royal palace, took care of him like a father and took him to the places he usually visited, leaving a deep paternal influence in the soul of Faik Hassan. His uncle was the reason why King Faisal I noticed the talent of this child, who promised to send him on a scholarship outside Iraq to study art.

▪ Published in “Memory of Color - Faik Hassan” by Kassim Muhsin, Pg.307, Edition 2016.