This sculpture and that offered in this sale as lot 30, are by the celebrated Jordanian calligrapher Nassar Mansour (b.1967). Considered one of the most accomplished contemporary Arab calligraphers, he has been exhibited numerous times in institutions across the world, including the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in Malaysia and the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy in Moscow. In April 2018, Nassar was awarded the Artistic Creativity Award for his academic and artistic efforts in reviving muhaqqaq script by the Arab Thought Foundation (ATF).

Mansour is also an academic in the field of Islamic calligraphy. He is the author of a book, Sacred Script. Muhaqqaq in Islamic Calligraphy (London, 2011) and recently published Amshaq al-Khatt al-Muhaqqaq the firstmuhaqqaq copybook of its kind in the history of Islamic calligraphy (Amman, 2017). For more information and another work on Dr. Nassar Mansour, please see lot 30 in this sale.

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