Ibrahim El Dessouki (Egypt, born 1969 )The Egyptian Violet oil and pigments on linen signed and dated 'Ibrahim El Dessouki 2012' (lower left) 185 x 85cm (72 13/16 x 33 7/16in).注脚Provenance:Property from a private collection, DubaiChristie's, Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art Part II, October 2013, lot 193"Art, be it poetry, visual art, drama or dance, is the transformation of what is real into magic, and converting what is magical into a tangible reality, for we perceive that there are, beyond those infantile voices, even more primordial voices. We artists guess the being of those most archaic voices; deeper, and more sagacious - spoken in a language of legend, yet we feel them as not mere legend, but simultaneously as dream and symbol" - Ibrahim El Dessouki