MONA SAUDI (JORDANIAN, 1945-2022) The Seed
MONA SAUDI (JORDANIAN, 1945-2022)
The Seed
1986
Cristal marble
24.5cm x 19.5cm
Born in Amman, Jordan in 1945, Mona Saudi ran away from home at age 17 to move to Beirut, where she met artists like Paul Guiragossian, Adonis and Michel Basbous. In 1973, Mona graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where she studied sculpture. She left Beirut for Amman in 1983 amid civil war, before returning to Beirut in the 1990s where she remained until her death in 2022.
Published:
Mona Saudi, Forty Years in Sculpture / Quarante Ans de Sculpture, 2006, pp. 148-149.
Provenance:
From the property of a private collector.
MONA SAUDI (JORDANIAN, 1945-2022)
The Seed
1986
Cristal marble
24.5cm x 19.5cm
Born in Amman, Jordan in 1945, Mona Saudi ran away from home at age 17 to move to Beirut, where she met artists like Paul Guiragossian, Adonis and Michel Basbous. In 1973, Mona graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where she studied sculpture. She left Beirut for Amman in 1983 amid civil war, before returning to Beirut in the 1990s where she remained until her death in 2022.
Published:
Mona Saudi, Forty Years in Sculpture / Quarante Ans de Sculpture, 2006, pp. 148-149.
Provenance:
From the property of a private collector.
