Appraisal: 1962 Ahmed Yacoubi "A Spell Against Evil" Oil
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Appraisal: 1962 Ahmed Yacoubi "A Spell Against Evil" Oil
In Grant's Farm, Hour 3, Betty Krulik appraises a 1962 Ahmed Yacoubi "A Spell Against Evil" oil.
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Appraisal: 1962 Ahmed Yacoubi "A Spell Against Evil" Oil
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In Grant's Farm, Hour 3, Betty Krulik appraises a 1962 Ahmed Yacoubi "A Spell Against Evil" oil.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: It's painted by a Moroccan painter named Ahmed Yacoubi.
In, uh, 1965, uh, my parents, uh, met Ahmed and his fiancée, and they all got along.
My parents were invited in to New York, to his studio, and, uh, my parents saw this piece of work, and they fell in love with it and asked Ahmed if they would hold it for them.
He said $200.
(chuckles) APPRAISER: $200.
GUEST: $200 in 1965.
I think my parents were lucky if they made $2,000 that year... APPRAISER: Wow.
GUEST: So they must have really loved this piece of work.
APPRAISER: Absolutely.
GUEST: Yeah.
Uh, Ahmed called it a "Spell Against Evil."
And there is a human figure in there, and you can see the hands, casting spells.
But he didn't paint overt human figure at this time, because he was a practicing Muslim.
APPRAISER: Ahmed was discovered, actually, by the writer Paul Bowles in Morocco.
And Paul Bowles's wife got him his first show... APPRAISER: ...in Tangier.
He also met Francis Bacon, the great British realist painter.
And Bacon was a huge proponent of Ahmed's work.
The painting is oil on canvas, and he used layers and layers of glazes.
And then he used this richly surfaced dark, um, black paint, and kind of worked through the paint, scraping away, and in some areas, adding a little bit of lighter color, the orange and the yellow.
It is signed in a very distinctive way... GUEST: (chuckling) Yeah.
With little polka dots on it.
APPRAISER: His work comes on the market mostly in British sales.
Works of this size, um, sell very consistently in the auction market between $20,000 and $30,000.
GUEST: Oh, my.
Wow.
Not bad for a $200 investment in 1965.
Wow.
APPRAISER: I would insure it for closer to $40,000.
GUEST: It's never going to be for sale.
I've known this painting my whole life.
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