Fazal Sheikh
Mohammed Daud’s Hand, One Year after Picking up a Butterfly Mine He Thought Was a Toy, Afghan Refugee Village, Nasir Bagh, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan

Mohammed Daud’s Hand, One Year after Picking up a Butterfly Mine He Thought Was a Toy, Afghan Refugee Village, Nasir Bagh, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan

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Artist Fazal Sheikh (American, born 1965)American, born 1965

CultureAmerican

Titles

Mohammed Daud’s Hand, One Year after Picking up a Butterfly Mine He Thought Was a Toy, Afghan Refugee Village, Nasir Bagh, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan
from the series The Victor Weeps

Date1997, printed 2016

Place depictedNasir Bagh, Pakistan

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 18 9/16 × 18 1/8 in. (47.2 × 46 cm)
Sheet: 24 1/8 × 23 5/8 in. (61.2 × 60 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Jane P. Watkins

Object number2017.54

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Photographs by African American Artists

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceThe artist; [Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in pencil, verso, upper right corner: FZ.664
Signed in pencil, verso, bottom center: MOHAMMED DAUD’S HAND, ONE YEAR AFTER PICKING UP A BUTTERFLY MINE HE THOUGHT WAS A TOY // AFGHAN REFUGEE VILLAGE, NASIR BAGA, NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE // PAKISTAN, 1997. // ©Fazal Sheikh

Signed in pencil, verso, bottom center: MOHAMMED DAUD’S HAND, ONE YEAR AFTER PICKING UP A BUTTERFLY MINE HE THOUGHT WAS A TOY // AFGHAN REFUGEE VILLAGE, NASIR BAGH, NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE // PAKISTAN, 1997. // ©Fazal Sheikh

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