They Always Appear #4

Artist Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudanese, 1930)

Date1964-1965

DimensionsFramed: H 21 1/4 x W 15 3/8 x D 1 5/8 in. (H 54 x W 39.1 x D 4.1 cm)
Canvas: H 18 x W 12 in. (H 45.7 x W 30.5 cm)

Credit LinePurchase 2014 Contemporary Art Society of Great Britain Fund

Object number2014.34

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Object NamePainting

Title Details

Primary Title They Always Appear #4

InscriptionsSignature lower right corner of face.ProvenanceThis painting has been in the artist's own collection since first created.Exhibition History"Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club", Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk, VA from (10/7/2022 – 1/8/2023); The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA ( 2/10 – 5/7/2023); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (6/3 – 10/3/2023).
"Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam through Time & Place", Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey (February 12 - May 15, 2016).
The painting was included in the recent exhibition Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist (organized by the Museum for African Art in NY and on view at the Tate Modern in London in 2013) and included in the accompanying catalogue, edited by preeminent art historian Salah M. Hassan.

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