About the Artwork
Al-Khidr
2009
Shiva Ahmadi
born 1975
American
Unknown
Watercolor, ink, and acrylic on aquaboard
Overall: 40 × 60 × 3 inches (101.6 × 152.4 × 7.6 cm)
Paintings
Contemporary Art after 1950
Museum Purchase, Asian and Islamic Art Forum and gift of Clan Crawford, Jr. by exchange
2010.31
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Provenance
2010-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Shiva Ahmadi: Reinventing the Poetics of Myth. Exh. cat., Lelia Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery. New York, 2010, (ill.) [unpaginated].
Ecker, Heather. "Shiva Ahmadi: The Flowers of Evil." Shiva Ahmadi: Apocalyptic Playland. Exh. cat., Leila Heller Gallery. New York, 2013, (ill.) [unpaginated] [object not in exhibition].
Shiva Ahmadi. Exh. cat., Leila Heller Gallery and Skira Editore. New York and Milan, 2017, p. 107 (ill.) and p. 119.
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Shiva Ahmadi, Al-Khidr, 2009, watercolor, ink, and acrylic on Aquaboard. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Asian and Islamic Art Forum and gift of Clan Crawford, Jr. by exchange, 2010.31.
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