ALDINE Painting 20th Abstract composition Oil canvas signed dated Certificate of authenticity

ALDINE (1917 / 1992)
Abstract composition.
Oil on canvas signed, dated 1971 lower right, countersigned and dated on the back.
130x97 cm
Certificate of authenticity.
Abdellatif ALA EL DIN, known as Aldine, was a Franco-Egyptian painter and sculptor born in Cairo in 1917 and died in 1992.
Aldine came from a cultured Egyptian family. He studied physics and chemistry at the Sorbonne and embarked on a career in science. In the mid-40s, his meeting with the art critic Michel Ragon proved decisive and he increasingly indulged his passion for painting and the visual arts. In 1953, he moved to France, where he was appointed cultural attaché at the Egyptian Embassy in Paris, then Director of the Education Office and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. He devoted himself solely to painting from the end of the 50s. A member of the second school of Paris, he worked in Montparnasse, where he had his studio. Soon, he began to sculpt as much as he painted. One of his most important works, Hiroshima Man, has been featured in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad. Aldine oscillated for a long time between figurative and abstraction to develop at the end of his life an almost exclusively abstract expression, but whose titles made reference to concrete and often mystical or fantastic subjects (The Crucified, The Templars). The artist then used bold lines drawn with broad brush strokes, with a preference for curvilinear contours. He successively explored the themes of Nebulae, Steles and then Whirlwinds.
His works are present in the collections of Beaubourg, the MNAM and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille, as well as in the collections of the Aga Khan.