Nja MAHDAOUI [Tunisian] (b. 1937) Graphème "Les poèmes de Djaykoûr", 1998 Ink on parchment. Signed lower right. Dated in Arabic lower left. 44 x 35 cm Provenance : Salah Stétié Collection. This work is recorded in the Nja Mahdaoui catalog raisonné currently in preparation. This work is part of a series of 20 graphemes created for the book Badr Chaker es Sayyâb, Les poèmes de Djaykoûr, presentation and translation by Salah Stétié, Éditions Fata Morgana, 2000, illustrated with calligraphy by Nja Mahdaoui and published in 600 copies (580 copies on ivory laid paper and 20 copies on laid paper, each accompanied by an original grapheme on parchment by Nja Mahdaoui) like the one presented in our sale.