Süleyman Saim Tekcan
Horse on a Red Ground
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50 × 60 cm
- Viewing
- At the showroom — by appointment
Against a russet ground where the marks of its making are left open, a white horse rises in profile within a black oval. Its mane is worked as long, flowing ribbons of silver; the body descending from neck to leg is built up in curling, sculptural volumes. The contrast between the warmth of the red and the depth of the black brings the figure forward like a relief catching the light. The artist's signature and the date appear at the lower right.
About the Artist
Süleyman Saim Tekcan (b. 1940, Trabzon) completed the Painting and Handicrafts Department of the Gazi Institute of Education in Ankara in 1961, and served at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University as professor and as dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts. He led the establishment of original printmaking studios in Turkey, and the wet-printing method he developed is known in the international literature as the "Tekcan technique". In 2004 he founded IMOGA, the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Arts. Since the 1990s the figure of the horse — nourished by Ottoman manuscripts and by the civilisations of Anatolia — has stood at the centre of his work.
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