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Nefud Desert, ca. 1917 (according to Lean)
TECHNICAL DATA
Author: Miguel Aguirre (Lima, 1973)
Title: Nefud Desert, ca. 1917 (according to Lean)
Year: 2012
Technique: oil on paper
Size: 35 x 50 cm
Nefud Desert, ca. 1917 (according to Lean) belongs to the Dramatization: Film Negatives series from 2012 in which the Peruvian artist drew inspiration from different stills from major works in the history of cinema, such as Gone with the Wind, Battleship Potemkin and Apocalypse Now. In this painting, Aguirre specifically depicts the desert Nefud Desert in the north of the Arabian Peninsula in the instant prior to the attack on the city of Aqaba on 6 July 1917 during the Arab uprising against the Ottomans, as David Lean interpreted the facts in the film Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
This piece was acquired by the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson at the Espacio Líquido Gallery stand at the Just Mad fair in 2019.