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Sahar Othman

Workers at Industrial Oil Field Site, 1979

Estimated price$301 – $559

Graphic, Print Making

21 × 34 cm | 8.3 × 13.4 in

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About the work

A group of workers strain together around an oil drilling rig, rendered in bold crosshatched lines against a dark, smoky landscape dotted with industrial towers and structures. The composition conveys collective labor and industrial effort through an expressive, graphic printmaking style.

Sahar Othman (Iraq).

Graphic, Print Making, 34 × 21 cm, 1979.

Part of the permanent collection of the Hindiyeh Museum of Arts, Jordan. Signed and editioned 5/10.

Medium
Size
21 × 34 cm | 8.3 × 13.4 in
Year
1979
Rarity
Limited Edition
Certificate of authenticity
Included
Genre
Colours
Black and White, Grey
Location
Amman, Jordan

About the artist

Sahar Othman — Graphic, Print Making , 34 × 21 cm (representative image)
Sahar Othman

Iraq

Sahar Mohamed Othman Dourgham, known professionally as Sahar Dourgham, is an Egyptian artist born on December 8, 1970. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, specializing in Animation and Book Art, from Helwan University in 2005. Dourgham's artistic practice encompasses various mediums, including installation art and video performance, often exploring themes of language, society, and cultural identity.

Dourgham has presented her work in numerous solo exhibitions, notably "In Touch" at Mellanrummet Gallery, The Royal Academy of Arts in Sweden (2001), and "Two Versions of Holes" at the Goethe Institute in Cairo (2006) and Alexandria (2007). Her participation in group exhibitions includes "Switching Language," a video performance with artist Hadieel Nazmy at the Goethe Institute in Alexandria (2003), and the 9th Exhibition of Artist Books in Ireland (2003). She has also been involved in various workshops and international biennales, contributing to the global discourse on contemporary art.

In addition to her artistic endeavors, Dourgham has held academic positions, serving as a lecturer at the Faculty of Applied Arts at October University. Her contributions to the art world have been recognized with awards, such as the Encouragement Prize in the University Youth Competition at Mansoura University in 2003.

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Printmaking

Images made by transferring ink from a prepared surface — etching, lithography, screenprint, woodcut — usually in limited editions. Iraqi artists such as Rafa Nasiri helped make printmaking a serious modern art form across the Arab world.
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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.
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