Seated Woman, Zanzibar - Irma Stern Painting - Canvas Prints
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8x12 inches
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13x18 inches
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17x24 inches
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21x30 inches
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About Seated Woman, Zanzibar Irma Stern Painting
Executed on her second trip to Zanzibar in 1945, this gouache of a seated woman captures the unusually direct gaze of Irma Stern's sitter, recording a rare moment of feminine agency in an otherwise patriarchal society. As she would write in her eponymous travel journal, Zanzibar, which was published three years later in 1948, 'The Arab may marry two or more wives. The women do not count, they have no say in the men's lives. They bring children into the world, they cook, they direct servants, but they are of no consequence. Stern was, by this stage in her life, a fiercely independent woman, and well-travelled. She had been divorced for twelve years and undertaken some of her most exciting journeys to Zanzibar and the Belgium Congo between the years of 1939 and 1946, on her own. Moved to explore the African continent further, due to the outbreak of the Second World War curtailing any chance of European travel, Stern's views at once reflect the overarching prejudices of the time whilst signalling a deeper sense of justice as to the role of women and universal suffrage in what was an otherwise conservative society. Thus one can understand Stern's painterly representations of female subjects from this period as an attempt to make visible that which was traditionally unseen. As she would write 'Arab women are still in purdah and only deeply veiled may leave their house'.It is then of no surprise that Stern's compositions of these women take place in the secluded domesticity of the harem. About the Canvas Prints
Seated Woman, Zanzibar - Irma Stern Painting by Irma Stern. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto our premium processed canvases and then stretched on a white maple wooden frame (gallery wrap) or framed inside black maple (framed canvas). Your canvas print will be shipped within 4 days in "ready to frame" condition for normal rolled and "ready to hang" condition for frames and wraps with pre-attached hanging wire and/or mounting points.
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