In Tate Modern
In the Studio: International Surrealism
Free entry- Artist
- Ramses Younan 1913–1966
- Original title
- Inspiration de la Mer
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 826 × 1004 mm
frame: 862 × 1050 × 36 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased with funds provided by the Middle East and North Africa Acquisitions Committee 2017
- Reference
- T14881
Display caption
Younan was an artist, writer and political activist. In the late 1930s he co-founded the Egyptian surrealist group Art and Freedom. He believed in the revolutionary power of the imagination, and used the unconscious mind as a source for his art. Starting from an initial improvisation he would develop and refine the surface of his paintings to produce complex abstract compositions. Here forms seem to dissolve and merge into each other. The colours resemble those of an Egyptian landscape.
Gallery label, January 2019
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