(Ref No 467)

The late Mohamed Awad turns introspection into image. The portrait, stripped of individual identity, becomes a universal mirror — half bathed in the warmth of red and ochre, half enveloped in cool shades of green and blue. Between these two tonal worlds, a narrow line of yellow suggests the fragile equilibrium between thought and emotion, presence and absence. The eyes, rendered in stark monochrome, seem both open and withdrawn, gazing beyond the visible. They express what words cannot — a state of inward stillness, a quiet tension between being and becoming. The work recalls Awad’s lifelong exploration of human essence, where abstraction merges with figuration to reveal the unseen terrain of the soul. This painting, at once personal and archetypal, marks one of the artist’s last meditations on identity — not as an external form, but as a state of spiritual consciousness suspended between color and silence.

Size: 43 × 45 cm
Artist: The Late Mohamed Awad
Technique: Acrylic on Canvas