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Woman in Orange Headscarf Old Alley - shown to scale
Zainab Abdul Kareem

Woman in Orange Headscarf Old Alley

Estimated price$987 – $1,833

Oil on Canvas

55 × 55 cm | 21.7 × 21.7 in

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About the work

A young woman wearing a vivid orange headscarf pauses in a sunlit alleyway, her figure rendered with loose, expressive brushwork against a backdrop of ancient earthen buildings and distant figures. The warm golden tones and soft atmospheric light evoke the quiet bustle of an old Iraqi street.

Zainab Abdul Kareem (Iraq).

Oil on Canvas, 55 × 55 cm.

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

Medium
Size
55 × 55 cm | 21.7 × 21.7 in
Rarity
Unique
Certificate of authenticity
Included
Genre
Impressionism & Post-Impressionism
Colours
Brown, Orange, Yellow
Location
Amman, Jordan

About the artist

Zainab Abdul Kareem — Oil On Canvas, 55 × 55 cm (representative image)
Zainab Abdul Kareem

Iraq

Zainab Abdul Kareem, born in Baghdad in 1972, is an Iraqi visual artist and designer known for her contributions to contemporary art. She graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1992 and earned a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad in 1995. In 2006, she obtained a diploma in painting restoration from the Faculty of Restoration in Litomyšl, Czech Republic.

Abdul Kareem has held several solo exhibitions, including her first in 1990, followed by "Transferring State" in 1995, and another in 1999. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions both within Iraq and internationally, such as the Contemporary Iraqi Art Exhibition in Pakistan, Oman, and Beirut in 2001, and a joint exhibition in Paris in 2001. Her work has been showcased in Finland, Poland, Jordan, Tunisia, and the Netherlands.

In addition to her artistic practice, Abdul Kareem has contributed to the art community as a lecturer at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad from 2003 to 2004 and served as the director of Al-Wasiti Gallery under the Ministry of Culture from 2004 to 2008. She co-founded the "Iraqi Art Encyclopedia" in 2005 and has been involved in art education and conservation in Norway since 2010.

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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.
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