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Basel Abbas

Basel Abbas

Artist

WA-00035432

Representation

None documented

0

Institutional Exhibitions

7

Works in Collection

15

Assets Indexed

1

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

50%

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Authority Records (1)

Field Verification (1 fields)

0 cross-verified · 1 single-source

BiographyMoMA· 93%

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/49569
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

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Related Artists

6 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York

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Artworks (7)

The Part About the Bandits - Chapter 2; Unforgiving Years - Chapter 4

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Museum of Modern Art

The Part About the Bandits - Chapter 2

The Part About the Bandits - Chapter 2

2012 · Video (color, sound)

Museum of Modern Art

Unforgiving Years - Chapter 3

Unforgiving Years - Chapter 3

2012 · Digital prints, documents, drawings, ephemera, furniture, video (color, sound; 4:10 min)

Dimensions variable

Museum of Modern Art

Unforgiving Years - Chapter 4

Unforgiving Years - Chapter 4

2012 · Single-channel video (color, sound)

Museum of Modern Art

The Part About the Bandits - Chapter 1

2012 · Digital prints, documents, ephemera, furniture, vinyl LPs, sound and video (color, sound; 35:51 min.)

Museum of Modern Art

Unforgiving Years - Part 2 of The Incidental Insurgents

2012 · Chapter 3 Installation: documents, images, personal items, desks, chairs, table, lightboxes, drawings on tracing paper, wooden tower, wooden cages, miniature furniture, laptop computer with 4'10" minute video

Museum of Modern Art

The Part About the Bandits, Part 1 of the Incidental Insurgents

2012 · Chapter 1 Installation: documents, images, personal items, desks, chairs, table, stools, office cabinet, storage boxes, speakers, two record players, vinyls, sound of vinyl crackle, desktop computer with video (color, sound; 35:51 min.)

Museum of Modern Art

Artwork sources (1)

7 published of 14 catalogued · 8 with image

MoMA
7 publishedof 14 catalogued8 img

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Images

The Lovers (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

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1

Collections1

Museum of Modern Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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