The Group
Ibrahim El-Salahi
Sudanese, born 1930
2016
A clothbound portfolio of twelve etchings by Ibrahim El‑Salahi in which the artist uses calligraphic gestures and spare figurative marks to probe collective identity and hybrid visual languages.
The object is arresting in itself: a vivid emerald‑green cloth cover stamped in warm vermilion with the artist’s name and the title “The Group,” its spare, formal presentation suggesting quiet rigor.
As a late work by a key Sudanese modernist, The Group translates El‑Salahi’s lifelong synthesis of Islamic calligraphy, African figuration, and modernist abstraction into printmaking, advancing postcolonial dialogues about identity and artistic fusion.
Medium
Portfolio of twelve etchings
Dimensions
composition (each approx.): 9 3/4 × 7 3/4" (24.8 × 19.7 cm); sheet (each approx.): 13 7/16 × 11 3/16" (34.1 × 28.4 cm)
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Credit
Acquired through the generosity of the Contemporary Drawing and Print Associates
Accession
193.2018.1-12
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