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Painting the Orient-Le Jour




Every day for the full year of 1999, Nada Sehnaoui reworked and painted over the front page of L’Orient-Le Jour, the only Lebanese Francophone newspaper. Painting the Orient-Le Jour is her first body of work to be exhibited as an installation in an art gallery.

Painting the Orient-Le Jour, January 1999<br> Mixed Media on Newspaper<br> 228cm x 232cm

Painting the Orient-Le Jour, February 1999<br> Mixed Media on Newspaper<br> 228cm x 232cm

Painting the Orient-Le Jour, March 1999<br> Mixed Media on Newspaper<br> 228cm x 290cm

Painting the Orient-Le Jour, 13 April 1975<br> Mixed Media on Paper<br> 117cm x 152cm

Painting the Orient-Le Jour, May 1999<br> Mixed Media on Newspaper<br> 228cm x 232cm

Painting the Orient-Le Jour, June 1999<br> Mixed Media on Newspaper <br>228cm x 290cm

Painting the Orient-Le Jour, July 1999<br> Mixed Media on Paper <br>228cm x 290cm

Painting the Orient-Le Jour, August 1999<br> Mixed Media on Paper <br>112cm x 150cm

Painting the Orient-Le Jour, September 1999<br> Mixed Media on Newspaper <br>228cm x 290cm

Painting the Orient-Le Jour, October 1999<br> Mixed Media on Newspaper <br>228cm x 290cm

Painting the Orient-Le Jour, November 1999<br> Mixed Media and Shredded <br>21cm x 50cm

Painting the Orient-Le Jour, December 1999<br> Mixed Media and Shredded <br>228cm x 290cm


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Words on Works, Painting the Orient-Le Jour by Nada Sehnaoui
Saradar Collection 2018