Ending 7th Jun, 2026 16:00
Olympia Timed: Modern and Contemporary African and Middle Eastern Art 2026
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HUSSEIN SALIM (SUDANESE B.1966)
(I)-(II) UNTITLED
(ii) signed and dated H. Salim / 06 bottom right
(i)-(ii) mixed media on canvas
(i)-(ii) 150 x 135cm; 59 x 53 1/8in
both unframed
(2)
Property of a Lady, London
Provenance
Sale, Dawsons Auctioneers, Maidenhead, 2023
Hussein Salim is one of the most widely exhibited Sudanese painters working today. Growing up during a period of significant political and cultural transformation in Sudan in the 1970s and 1980s, he was part of a generation of artists who sought to bridge traditional cultural values with the evolving language of contemporary Sudanese art. His rich, impasto mixed-media paintings draw on a personal symbolic vocabulary derived from his dual African and Islamic heritage, creating works that contemplate love, time, mortality and the experience of diasporic displacement. He has exhibited extensively, including at the Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg, and at solo and group shows in South Africa and beyond, where his auction records reflect a steadily growing international collector base.
Sold for £1,300
(I)-(II) UNTITLED
(ii) signed and dated H. Salim / 06 bottom right
(i)-(ii) mixed media on canvas
(i)-(ii) 150 x 135cm; 59 x 53 1/8in
both unframed
(2)
Property of a Lady, London
Provenance
Sale, Dawsons Auctioneers, Maidenhead, 2023
Hussein Salim is one of the most widely exhibited Sudanese painters working today. Growing up during a period of significant political and cultural transformation in Sudan in the 1970s and 1980s, he was part of a generation of artists who sought to bridge traditional cultural values with the evolving language of contemporary Sudanese art. His rich, impasto mixed-media paintings draw on a personal symbolic vocabulary derived from his dual African and Islamic heritage, creating works that contemplate love, time, mortality and the experience of diasporic displacement. He has exhibited extensively, including at the Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg, and at solo and group shows in South Africa and beyond, where his auction records reflect a steadily growing international collector base.
Auction: Olympia Timed: Modern and Contemporary African and Middle Eastern Art 2026, ending 7th Jun, 2026
If you want to start collecting striking modern and contemporary art in a newly developing market, our sales are for you. Each spring and autumn, the Modern and Contemporary African and Middle Eastern Department hold tightly curated, live and online auctions. Expect to find Arab artists such as Rabab Nemr, Ahmed Farid, Seif Wanly and Fateh Moudarres. African artists featured have ranged from modern masters such as Ablade Glover, Sam Ntiro and Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, to contemporary artists George Lilanga, Jilali Gharbaoui, Famakan Magassa, Christano Mangovo, Oluwole Omofemi, Esther Mahlangu and Brett Seiler.
