Notre Ami le Roi [Our Friend the King]
Mail Art. The image is contemporary parody after the orientalist painting Odalisque with a Slave by J.A.D. Ingres (1842), in which Musa replaces the slave with stamps for two Arab kings and the lute player with Queen Elizabeth II. A stamp of a cat’s head mocks the voluptuous odalisque, a harem w...
Archive & Special Collections | MS 381333/01 | Restrictions |
Order number: |
MS 381333 |
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Date(s) of creation: |
1993 |
Level: |
Item |
Format: | Archive |
Main author: | Musa; Hassan (b 1951); contemporary visual artist |
URL: |
https://digital.soas.ac.uk/MUSA000043/00001 |
URL Description: |
Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections |
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