Aziz Art October 2018
History of art(west and Iranian)-contemporary art
History of art(west and Iranian)-contemporary art
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A number of his works, formerly<br />
held in the Iraq National Museum<br />
of Modern <strong>Art</strong>, were subject to<br />
the looting that occurred in 2003<br />
following the US invasion of Iraq.<br />
At least one of these, The Lost City,<br />
rated as one of the top 100<br />
missing works, has since been<br />
repatriated. The stolen artworks<br />
have been involved in controversy<br />
within art circles. A private Iraqi<br />
seller, offered The Lost City, for<br />
sale with a $50,000 price tag,<br />
to a gallery in 2011, in spite of<br />
the fact that it was listed by<br />
Interpol as a stolen artwork. With<br />
the assistance of the gallery, US<br />
Embassy in Baghdad, Interpol and<br />
the FBI, the work was eventually<br />
recovered and returned to the<br />
rightful owner, the Iraq National<br />
Museum of Modern <strong>Art</strong>.<br />
He has promoted Arabic art and<br />
culture through both his writing<br />
and his art. He has published some<br />
fourteen books, numerous articles<br />
and has edited art magazines. He<br />
was the <strong>Art</strong> Director of the<br />
International Magazine of Arab<br />
Culture, between 1978 and 1984.
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