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Yellow Portrait Figure with Laurel Crown, 2024

Estimated price$4,200 – $7,800

Oil on Canvas

150 × 100 cm | 59.1 × 39.4 in

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About the work

A boldly rendered face crowned with a laurel wreath emerges from a fragmented black and white background, rendered in vivid yellow tones that recall ancient Fayum portrait traditions. The layered composition, with its torn paper-like white shapes and dripping black forms, creates a powerful tension between antiquity and modern expression.

Jalal Alwan (Iraq).

Oil on Canvas, 100 × 150 cm, 2024.

Part of the permanent collection of the Hindiyeh Museum of Arts, Jordan. One of a kind.

Medium
Size
150 × 100 cm | 59.1 × 39.4 in
Year
2024
Rarity
Unique
Certificate of authenticity
Included
Genre
Colours
Yellow, Black and White, Brown
Location
Amman, Jordan
Notes
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About the artist

Jalal Alwan

Iraq

Jalal Alwan (b. 1960, Baghdad) is an Iraqi artist who graduated in ceramics from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad. He emigrated to the Netherlands in the mid-1990s and has exhibited widely across the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Egypt and the United Kingdom. He works as a freelance artist and lives in London.

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Oil

Pigment bound in oil, prized for its depth, luminosity, and slow drying that lets artists blend and build rich layers. The most enduring medium of modern painting, it remains central to the work of the region's leading modernists.

Expressionism

Art that prioritizes emotion and inner experience over realistic depiction, using distortion, bold color, and energetic mark-making. In the region it gave modern artists a language for memory, displacement, and identity.