TEKKE OF UM-HARAM II, c.1951
Ink and wash. 17½ x 12in. (44.6 x 31cm.)
inscribed on the reverse of the frame with the artist’s name and the title of the work.
Provenance
National Trust bequest.
Exhibited
London, Gallery I, 1957, No. 1.
In addition to the gendering of the architecture as seen in the sister work Tekke of Um-Haram (1951), this watercolour has clear lines of force encircling the building, linking the earth-based structure to the sky above and the underworld below. There are visual similarities with Mausoleum (1944) which also reveals the axis mundi.