Object Details
- Description
- Streamlined black and white line draw of three humps with unconnected, open curvilinear forms below. Conservation treatment generously supported by the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, 2019
- Provenance
- Dr. Roxane Carlisle, gift from the artist, mid 1960s to 2015
- Content Statement
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Ibrahim El Salahi, born 1930, Sudan
- Date
- 1964-65
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Roxane Connick Carlisle, Conservation of this artwork supported by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee
- Medium
- Ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 43 × 57.7 cm (16 15/16 × 22 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing and Collage
