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Cihat Burak, born in Istanbul in 1915 and deceased there in 1994, combined the professions of architect, painter and writer. He graduated in architecture in 1943 while developing an artistic practice in which memories of Ottoman society meet contemporary life. Black humour, fantasy and satire give his figures a critical relationship to the world around them.
In A Realm Where Strange Things Happen, painted in 1967, a verse by Asaf Halet Çelebi supplies the title. Characters and buildings drawn from Ottoman, European and Indian cultures form an unreal world. Drawing also runs through his ceramics and prints. From 1976 to 1992 he worked in Süleyman Saim Tekcan's workshops, exploring printmaking as another medium for his narrative visual language alongside his painting and other activities.
This profile brings together identity references for Cihat Burak and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
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Oil on hardboard
Blumen in Vase, 1955
Öl auf Hartfaserplatte
Catalogue period : 2018-06-20
Published result : 9047 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 7000–9000
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