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Large red and yellow calligraphic figures on a blue background with smaller white calligraphic figures in the upper right side. Arabic text and small animal-like figures within the larger central figure.
Jawartu
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Jawartu

Artist Yelimane Fall (Senegalese, born 1953)
Date2003
Place of originDakar, Senegal
MediumAcrylic on canvas
Dimensions30 3/4 x 49 in. (78.1 x 124.5 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Fund
Object number2011.44.4
Collections
Visual DescriptionLarge red and yellow calligraphic figures on a blue background with smaller white calligraphic figures in the upper right side. Arabic text and small animal-like figures within the larger central figure.
Large blue calligraphic figures on a blue background with smaller red calligraphic figures in the upper right side. Blue and red figures and text within the larger figures.
Jawartu, Line 22
Yelimane Fall
2002
Yellow central calligraphic figure on a blue background with black and yellow calligraphic figures to the left and right. Arabic text within the figures.
Jawartu
Yelimane Fall
2003
Red central calligraphic figure on a blue background with darker red calligraphic figures to the left and right. Arabic text within the figures.
Jawartu
Yelimane Fall
2002
Red central calligraphic figure with inlaid Arabic. Yellow calligraphic figures to the left and black calligraphic figures on the right. On white field.
Jawartu
Yelimane Fall
2002
Portrait of two figures, male and female. A small but full sized female nude lingers in the top right corner.
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