1970Emirati man – United Arab Emirates –
Artist: Zuher Arawi
Dimensions: 33 cm x 22 cm
Location: Abu Dhabi
Created: 1992
Medium: Ink on Canson paper
A Court in the Alhambra in the Time of the Moors, Edwin Lord Weeks
A Goat Harder from Tyre – Lebanon the 1850
Artist: Zuher Arawi
Dimensions: 35 cm x 29 cm
Location: Abu Dhabi
Created: 1992
Medium: Ink on Canson paper
A musician in a coffee shop – 1850
A Muslim praying prostrating – Palestine – 1850
Artist: Zuher Arawi
Dimensions: 24 cm x 16 cm
Location: Abu Dhabi
Created: 1994
Medium: Ink on Canson paper
A purebred Arabian horse
Artist: Zuher Arawi
Dimensions: 24 cm x 34 cm
Location: Abu Dhabi
Created: 2013
Medium: Acrylic
A street scene in old Cairo near the Ibn Tulun Mosque – Adrien Dauzats
A weeping woman by Dutch Artist Rembrandt van Rijn
A Woman Weeping, also known as A Weeping Woman or Study of a Weeping Woman, is a 1644 oil on oak panel painting, now in the Detroit Institute of Arts. It almost exactly corresponds to the kneeling woman in Rembrandt‘s The Woman Taken in Adultery (National Gallery, London) and is thought to be by one of his students after an autograph original study – Kurt Bauch argued this student was Carel Fabritius, whilst Werner Sumowski felt the strongest candidates were Samuel van Hoogstraten and Nicolaes Maes.
Abandoning Ship by Russian Artist Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
Abandoning Ship – Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was an Armenian-Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. He was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there.
While stormy seas, sinking ships and survivors in lifeboats are common themes in Aivazovsky’s work, the absence of horizon and sky in this painting is very unusual. The tightly cropped composition draws the viewer in and increases the drama of the scene, further enhanced by the striking reflection of light on the waves.
The unusual composition is not the result of the canvas having been cut-down at a later stage but was indeed intended by the artist. A copy of the work, painted by Mikhail Briansky in 1887, only five years after the original, was sold at Sotheby’s London in May 2004. Both its composition and dimensions are identical to the original.