Lot 52

Mahmoud Mohammed Farah (Sudanese, born 1944)
Displacement l (part of the Art of War, Act of War Series), 2021
Signed ‘mahmoud 2021’ (lower middle)
Oil on canvas
148 x 145 cm
KES 380,000 – 450,000
(US$) 2,900 – 3,550
Provenance: From the artist’s collection.

Mahmoud Mohamed Farah is a Sudanese/Canadian painter and Educator.
Farah studied under Ibrahim El Salahi as an undergraduate at the College of Fine and Applied Art in Khartoum, Sudan between 1964-1968, and worked at the same college as a Teaching Assistant, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer between 1968-1981. Farah received his Masters degree from the College of Art in Dusseldorf in Germany in 1981, and subsequently worked at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and at The Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Farah sees his paintings as diaries of his life journey. Elusive and mysterious images wait to be revealed as he uses a brush and a few colours, and exposes the mysterious images layer by layer. Farah is influenced by a variety music from classical and jazz to ethnic African and indigenous Sudanese music, and his recent work has been influenced by the devastating war in Sudan, which has formed the basis of his current theme Displacement Act of war, Art of war.

Farah has exhibited his work widely in Sudan, Germany, USA, Canada, Brunei, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. He was one of the prize winners for the Al Burda Competition in 2016 and the gold medal winner of the Saudia Airlines Art Competition, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1994.