En Taule avec des amis Hollandais [In Jail with Dutch Friends]

Mail Art. En Taule avec des amis Hollandais / In Jail with my Dutch Friends depicts Musa with self-portraits of Rembrandt and Van Gogh inside a minimalist grid that references Modernist Dutch artist Mondrian, using collage and drawing. A continuity in Musa’s art practice is his self-portraiture.


Order number: MS 381333
Date(s) of creation: 1993
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Musa; Hassan (b 1951); contemporary visual artist
URL: https://digital.soas.ac.uk/MUSA000045/00002
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

Order number: MS 381333
Summary: Mail Art. En Taule avec des amis Hollandais / In Jail with my Dutch Friends depicts Musa with self-portraits of Rembrandt and Van Gogh inside a minimalist grid that references Modernist Dutch artist Mondrian, using collage and drawing. A continuity in Musa’s art practice is his self-portraiture.
Main author: Musa; Hassan (b 1951); contemporary visual artist
Extent: 1 item
Acquisition: The donation was made to SOAS Library in June 2018 by Elsbeth Court, an academic who teaches African Art on the IFCELS course at SOAS, with the support and agreement of the artist Hassan Musa.
Access status: Restrictions apply
Access conditions: Requests to access this collection should be made to the Archives & Special Collections department in advance.
Copyright: Copyright in the artwork of Hassan Musa assigned to SOAS by the artist, 2018. Copyrights persist in other images and texts. The user is advised to investigate copyrights before making any re-use of this material.
Language: English
Scripts: Latin
Physical description: brown paper envelope 22.5cm x 32cm
Format: Archive