Lot 90: La Porte Andalouse

Amine El-Bacha (Lebanese, b. 1932)
La Porte Andalouse
signed 'El Bacha' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'El Bacha 1972 La porte Andalouse' (on the reverse)
oil on wooden door
76¾ x 29¼in. (195 x 74.5cm.)
Painted in 1972

Amine El-Bacha is a spontaneous and compulsive painter. He paints not only on canvas but on woodern sculptures, wooden screens, and on furniture. This is an exceptional early example of the latter. El-Bacha has taken an ordinary wooden door and has transformed it into something whimsical, exotic and romantic.