Dia Azzawi (Iraq, born 1939)Human States mixed media on paper, framedsigned and dated lower right, executed in 197550 x 40cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/4in).注脚Provenance:Property from a private collection, AmmanAcquired directly from the artist by the present ownerExhibited:Dia Azzawi, Halat Insaniyya (Human States), National Gallery of Baghdad, 1975 (the Artists last exhibition in Iraq before his migration to London)"I went to the army in the seventies andit was after that that I decided to leave Iraq becauseof the bad experiences I had. For example I had veryclose friends of mine fighting on the other side. Wewere like brothers fighting each other. Some of thework I did before I left Iraq was specifically a cry [against] he war in the north.... to tell you a story of how much[of a cry it was], I was sitting with Rafa al-Nasiri andIsmail Fattah [at an exhibition], and somebody came up [to one of the works] and asked us who the artist was. I said that I am, and he asked,what kind of work is this? Why do you have thesenames here, writing that is not readable? So I toldhim I was in the north, in the area where the fightingof the Kurds was going on. Suddenly his eyesstarted blinking, and I thought he was about to cry,and he said 'Allah yuhafdhak, ma'salaama' [Godprotect you, goodbye], which gave me a hint thatthis guy had lost his son or his brother in the war."- Dia Azzawi