BookmarkPearl fishermen working with a Sanbaq Dhow
Sailing Dhows have a colourful, adventurous and often fearsome history stretching back some 2 thousand years
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Exhibited at the European Parliament, May 2011
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Sanbaq dhows have seen more adventures than there are in Arabian Nights and are still used by Somali Pirates!
Think "Sinbad the sailor" and you are on the right track in more senses than one.
This marine painting which is for sale started life as one of a pair, a commission for the Royal collection of the Government of Oman who bought the other and are unaware of this second similar painting which sat unfinished in the studio until very recently. This is your chance to own a painting directly comparable to one in a royal collection
n display for the first time in public at the invited Exhibition "Life on the Ocean Wave" of The Marine Art of Gordon Frickers at the European Parliament, Brussels, the "Pearl fishermen working with a Sanbaq Dhow" shows men and dhow engaged in an ancient trade.
See also Baghlah - the traditional deep-sea dhow
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By Gordon Frickers 635 x 530 mm (25" x 21"), Oil, Price of the original on application
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