Lot 40: KADHIM HAIDER (IRAQI, 1932-1985) Do’a’a li al qamar raqam 17 (Prayer to the

KADHIM HAIDER (IRAQI, 1932-1985) Do’a’a li al qamar raqam 17 (Prayer to the Moon no. 17) signed in Arabic (lower left); titled in Arabic, signed, titled and dated ‘Prayer to the moon K.HAIDAR No 17 1969’ (on the reverse) oil on canvas 30 3/8 x 22 3/4 in. (77 x 57.7cm.) Painted in 1969

PROVENANCE: Al Omari Family Collection, Baghdad. Acquired from the above by the present owner. LITERATURE: J. I. Jabra, The Grass Roots of Iraqi Art, Baghdad 1983 (illustrated in colour, titled ‘from the Martyr’s Epic’, p. 13). D. Al-Azzawi, Kadhim Haider: Life of the Artist...Life of the Canvas (in Arabic), in Nsus, vol. 1, no. 1, 1994, in Modern Art Iraq Archive, item #78, accessed online (illustrated, titled ‘Martyr’s Epic’ (in Arabic) p. 78).