Ahmed Mater
Untitled

Untitled

© Ahmed Mater

Untitled
Untitled
ArtistSaudi Arabian, born 1979
CultureSaudi Arabian
Titles
  • Untitled
  • from the series Illumination (Ottoman Waqf)
Date2012
MediumOffset lithograph and gold leaf on paper with tea and pomegranate toning
DimensionsSheet (.A,.B): 60 1/4 × 40 1/4 in. (153 × 102.2 cm)
Frame (.A,.B): 70 × 49 in. (177.8 × 124.5 cm)


Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by John Aubrey, Gary Brock, Larry Davis, Chip Gill, Sean Gorman, Danny Klaes, David Pustka, Jim Tennant, Bill Thomas, and K. C. Weiner at "One Great Night in November, 2014"
Object number2014.850.A,.B
Not on view

Explore Further

Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Ahmed Mater works as an artist and a physician in Saudi
Arabia, and his work combines traditional Islamic art practice with modern medical
images. In his
Illumination
series, to which
this untitled diptych belongs, Mater draws inspiration from the Islamic arts of
the book, in particular illuminated manuscripts of the Qur’an. Mater magnifies
his illuminated page, accentuated by his life-size X-rays. The dualities of mind
and body, science and religion, and text and image are beautifully bridged in the
diptych. In an era of extremes and partisanship, Mater aims to create work that
is “about conversation” rather than division.




ProvenanceThe artist; [FotoFest International, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
.A,.B) Signed in lavender pencil recto lower right: Ahmed Matr 2012

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Deep South, Untitled (Bridge on Tallahatchie)
Sally Mann
1998
Gelatin silver print with tea toning
2019.682
Exotique Noir
Lawrence Lee
2007
Graphite, ink, and tea stains on paper
2007.717
Big Lips, Big Lies
Lawrence Lee
2006
Graphite, ink, tea stains on paper
2007.748
Shahzia Sikander, "Uprooted Order, Series 3, No. 1," 1997, vegetable color, dry pigment, and wa ...
Shahzia Sikander
1997
Vegetable color, watercolor, dried pigment, and tea water on wasli handmade paper
2003.728
Piranesi State 2
Lothar Osterburg
2008
Photogravure with scraping, drypoint, aquatint spitbite, and line etching, and tea on wove paper, edition 8/15
2019.238
When all the warheads turn to rust, until our days are done, we'll hold our mother earth in trust, for children yet to come
Ellen Lesperance
2018
Gouache and graphite on tea-stained wove paper; wool
2019.229.A,.B
Dragons of Karabakh
Faig Ahmed
2021
Cotton warp and weft, wool pile; symmetrical knot
2023.109
Clem Road Chronicles
Larry Calkins
2000
Gelatin silver print with tea-staining and wood frame coated in soot and wax
2000.663
Tea Brick
20th century
Tea
96.1662
Antonio Berni
1962
Goauche, wood, and metal, including coffee tin and tea cans, chicken wire, and mesh; egg carton, cardboard, lace, wine corks, and broom fibers on plywood
2019.179
Nancy Graves
1990
Lithograph in colors, printed chine collé, on white wove paper and cast paper collage from pulp with gold leaf, artist's proof 4/10
2016.88