The Last Harbia by Adele A. N. Art
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Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 90 x 120 cm
Year: 2016
Price: $650.00 USD
Status: available
From the whispering edges of forgotten myth, she appears — the Last Harbīa. Once a feared and fabled spirit of Arabian legend, she hovers between shadow and sky, her antlers like a crown of the wild, her body inscribed with sacred geometry. Violet and indigo wings rise behind her, each feather carrying the pulse of an ancient desert wind, even here in the stillness of a ghostly forest. She is an omen and a relic, the final witness to a world that has almost forgotten her name. In her presence, time feels suspended — and you cannot tell if she has come to guard, to guide, or to claim.
Why collect this work?
A winged figure dominates a leafless forest through near-frontal alignment and exaggerated scale, while asymmetries in the wings, limbs and curling tail keep the apparition from settling into a fixed emblem.
- The artist profile places Adele A. N. Art’s practice around figurative symbolism, memory and feminine presence. That focus supports reading this hybrid body as a constructed persona rather than a portrait of an individual.
- In the photograph, violet-blue wings occupy most of the upper field. Their repeated chevrons contrast with the pale torso and misty vertical trees, making the figure appear both separate from and patterned by the forest.
- Catalogued as oil on canvas, dated 2016 and measuring 90 by 120 cm, the work uses crisp linear repetition beside softened grey recession. Oil permits such shifts between defined contours and blended atmospheric passages, though the photograph cannot establish surface texture.
- The catalogue description identifies the figure as the last Harbīa and links her to Arabian legend. Treated as an artist-supplied premise, this naming makes the unresolved combination of antlers, wings, body and woodland a study in how imagined traditions are given visual authority.
About the Artist
Adele A. N. Art
Adele A. N. Art is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Nationality: Saudi
Symbolic figurative paintings exploring memory, silence, and feminine inner power
