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Figure with Checkered Face and Body - shown to scale
Roya Raouf

Figure with Checkered Face and Body, 1997

Estimated price$987 – $1,833

Mixed media On Canvas

54 × 44 cm | 21.3 × 17.3 in

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About the work

A human figure emerges from a deep teal background, its face and torso entirely replaced by a bold black-and-white checkerboard pattern, creating an eerie, dreamlike sense of obscured identity. The loose dark hair and softly rendered neck contrast with the rigid geometry of the squares, lending the composition a haunting, surrealist tension.

Roya Raouf (Iraq).

Mixed media On Canvas, 44 × 54 cm, 1997.

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

Medium
Size
54 × 44 cm | 21.3 × 17.3 in
Year
1997
Rarity
Unique
Certificate of authenticity
Included
Genre
Colours
Black and White, Green, Brown
Location
Amman, Jordan

About the artist

Roya Raouf — Oil on Canvas, 70 × 70 cm (representative image)
Roya Raouf

Iraq

Rouya Raouf, born in 1955 in Babel Governorate, Iraq, is a distinguished artist and poet. The daughter of renowned poet and writer Raouf Hassan al-Jubouri, she graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1978. Raouf's artistic journey is marked by a deep engagement with themes of human experience and cultural identity, often expressed through her evocative paintings and poetry.

Throughout her career, Raouf has held numerous solo exhibitions, beginning with her 1988 debut at Al-Riwaq Hall in Baghdad. Notable exhibitions include "Thought and Man" (1989) and "Man and his Symbols" (1991) at the same venue. Her work has been showcased internationally, with exhibitions such as "Ishtar" at Picasso Hall in Cairo (2006) and "Women, Music and Colors" at Al-Jasra Art Club in Doha (2008). In 2013, she presented "Feelings and Symbols" at the Hall of Women's Culture in Leipzig, Germany. Raouf's art has also been featured in group exhibitions across Europe and the Middle East, reflecting her commitment to sharing Iraqi culture globally.

In addition to her artistic endeavors, Raouf has contributed to art education, teaching at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and supervising artistic activities in Iraqi schools. She established the Rouya Hall in Baghdad, a space dedicated to art exhibitions. Currently residing in Germany, Raouf continues to create art that bridges cultural divides, aiming to convey the richness of Iraqi heritage to a global audience.

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Mixed media

Works combining two or more materials — paint, collage, found objects, text, sand — in a single piece. The approach lets artists layer meaning and material, and is widely used in modern and contemporary MENA art.
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Surrealism

Art of the dream and the unconscious, juxtaposing unexpected images to unsettle reason and reveal the irrational. Several Arab modernists embraced its imaginative freedom and symbolism.
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