Sadik Kwaish Alfraji
The house my father built

The house my father built
The house my father built
The house my father built
ArtistDutch, born Iraq, 1960
CultureDutch
Titles
  • The house my father built
Date2010
MediumInk, paper, rice paper, and oil on canvas, chromogenic prints, single-channel video, edition 2/3 + 1 AP
DimensionsOverall (installation): 153 1/8 × 196 7/8 in. (389 × 500 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation and the James R. Crane Foundation, courtesy of Franci Neely, and Joan Morgenstern
Object number2015.190.A-.E
Not on view

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Department
Photography
ProvenanceThe artist; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 2015.

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