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Gallery Announcements - La Part du Sable: Fouad Kamel, Hassen el Telmissany, and Ramses Younane, 1947-03-14 - 1947-03-24
"La Part du Sable vous prie d'assisler au vernissage de l'Exposition des Travaux Automatiques présentés par: Fouad Kamel[,] Hassan el Telmissany[, and] Ramsès Younane." (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)
Islamic principles leaf, 1277
Leaf from a book of Islamic principles according to Shafi'i beliefs written by El Sharkaway Aly El Tahrir. On machine-made paper.
Koran leaf, circa 1207
The writer spent 22 years of his life working on the book from which this leaf came. Almost every color is used in addition to solid gold leaf. He finished his work at 4:00 pm in the afternoon, March 22, 1207. The red lettering is in Persian, and the black words are Arabic. The book was found in Tehran, Iran in 1952 by Stanley S. Slotkin, and before disassembly was appraised for $25,000.