Abstract painting with a tan background. Black and brown abstract human figures make up the main figures.

© Ibrahim El-Salahi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Abstract painting with a tan background. Black and brown abstract human figures make up the main figures.

Currently not on view

Alphabet No. 1,

1960

Ibrahim El-Salahi, born 1930, Omdurman, Sudan; active Khartoum, Sudan and Oxford, UK
2025-21
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A Major Acquisition of African Modernism

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Title
Alphabet No. 1
Dates

1960

Maker
Ibrahim El-Salahi
Medium
Oil and enamel on canvas
Dimensions
36 × 46 cm (14 3/16 × 18 1/8 in.) frame: 39 × 49 × 4 cm (15 3/8 × 19 5/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2025-21
Culture
African
Type
oil paintings, paintings

Artist studio, Khartoum, Sudan, until ca. 1963; purchased by the Van Mierlo family, Sudan, ca.1963; Guillaume Van Mierlo, UK, by descent; purchased by Toby and Zoe Clarke, London, UK, 2016; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, July 2024

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