Dia Azzawi (Iraq, born 1939)We Are Not Seen, But, Corpses (The Massacre of Sabra and Shatila) etching and lithograph on paper in nine parts each work is signed, dated "1983", titled and numbered, number 10 from an edition of 60, executed in 1983 100 x 70 cm eachFootnotesA rare full set of Dia Azzawi's "We Are not Seen, But Corpses" in its original presentation case Exhibited: National Council for Art and Culture, Kuwait, 1983 Galerie des Arts, Tunis, 1990 The British Museum, London, 1991 The University of Nevada, USA, 1991 Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris, 1995 Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 1995 Qatar Museum Authority, Doha, 2016 Institut Du Monde Arabe, 2018 "After the Palestinian fighters left Lebanon, the Phalangists had their opportunity to take revenge on old people, women and children. I have a lot of Palestinian friends, some artists and writers, and I knew those camps. Within two days, up to 3,500 people were killed. So, this work had a moral side: to defend unarmed people with no voice." - Dia Azzawi Dia Al-Azzawi was deeply moved in September 1982 by the massacre of civilian Palestinians in the camps of Sabra and Shatila. The Iraqi artist had first started drawing in his studio in London the polyptych entitled The Sabra and Shatila Massacres, mixed media on paper laid down on canvas, 300 x 750 cm, in the collections of the London Tate Modern since 2012. As often was the case, he took his inspiration from photographs of the massacre published by the media and international newspapers. A few months later, in January 1983, he was inspired by Four hours in Chatila, a report that was written on the spot by the French writer Jean Genet, who has just reached Beirut with Leïla Shahid and who had visited the Palestinian camps the day after the massacres and it would be the source of inspiration for the images of nine original prints (eight etchings and one lithograph, 100 x 75 cm.) that he would publish in a portfolio with a title page and a page taken from Jean Genet's text, in a trilingual edition: We are not seen but Corpses. The Sabra and Shatila Massacres - Lâ nara illa juthathan - Nous ne voyons que des cadavres, London, 1983.
Dia Azzawi (Iraq, born 1939)We Are Not Seen, But, Corpses (The Massacre of Sabra and Shatila) etching and lithograph on paper in nine parts each work is signed, dated "1983", titled and numbered, number 10 from an edition of 60, executed in 1983 100 x 70 cm eachFootnotesA rare full set of Dia Azzawi's "We Are not Seen, But Corpses" in its original presentation case Exhibited: National Council for Art and Culture, Kuwait, 1983 Galerie des Arts, Tunis, 1990 The British Museum, London, 1991 The University of Nevada, USA, 1991 Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris, 1995 Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 1995 Qatar Museum Authority, Doha, 2016 Institut Du Monde Arabe, 2018 "After the Palestinian fighters left Lebanon, the Phalangists had their opportunity to take revenge on old people, women and children. I have a lot of Palestinian friends, some artists and writers, and I knew those camps. Within two days, up to 3,500 people were killed. So, this work had a moral side: to defend unarmed people with no voice." - Dia Azzawi Dia Al-Azzawi was deeply moved in September 1982 by the massacre of civilian Palestinians in the camps of Sabra and Shatila. The Iraqi artist had first started drawing in his studio in London the polyptych entitled The Sabra and Shatila Massacres, mixed media on paper laid down on canvas, 300 x 750 cm, in the collections of the London Tate Modern since 2012. As often was the case, he took his inspiration from photographs of the massacre published by the media and international newspapers. A few months later, in January 1983, he was inspired by Four hours in Chatila, a report that was written on the spot by the French writer Jean Genet, who has just reached Beirut with Leïla Shahid and who had visited the Palestinian camps the day after the massacres and it would be the source of inspiration for the images of nine original prints (eight etchings and one lithograph, 100 x 75 cm.) that he would publish in a portfolio with a title page and a page taken from Jean Genet's text, in a trilingual edition: We are not seen but Corpses. The Sabra and Shatila Massacres - Lâ nara illa juthathan - Nous ne voyons que des cadavres, London, 1983.
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