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Fikret Saygi Moualla (Turkish,1903-1967) The Card Game, 1955 Gouache on paper signed lower right and dated. Height 20, width 26 cm (at sight). Fikret Moualla is today one of the Turkish artists most appreciated by institutions and collectors. Yet his talent was not fully recognized until after his death in 1967. This bohemian life, between Turkey and Paris, alcoholic and on the fringes of the critics, contributed to his legend as a cursed artist. Trained as a painter at the French high school in Galatasaray, he had two passions: art and football. Influenced by the German expressionists, close to the studios of Othon Friesz and André Lhote, Moualla is an unclassifiable master of colour. An Ottoman interpreter of the Parisian avant-garde, the artist treats a small number of subjects in infinite variations. Card players, imaginary walks or reinvented during a trip to the Côte d'Azur, these four works from the same collection bear his vehement passion for colour.
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Fikret Saygi Moualla (Turkish,1903-1967) The Card Game, 1955 Gouache on paper signed lower right and dated. Height 20, width 26 cm (at sight). Fikret Moualla is today one of the Turkish artists most appreciated by institutions and collectors. Yet his talent was not fully recognized until after his death in 1967. This bohemian life, between Turkey and Paris, alcoholic and on the fringes of the critics, contributed to his legend as a cursed artist. Trained as a painter at the French high school in Galatasaray, he had two passions: art and football. Influenced by the German expressionists, close to the studios of Othon Friesz and André Lhote, Moualla is an unclassifiable master of colour. An Ottoman interpreter of the Parisian avant-garde, the artist treats a small number of subjects in infinite variations. Card players, imaginary walks or reinvented during a trip to the Côte d'Azur, these four works from the same collection bear his vehement passion for colour.
