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Rahim El (b. 1984) Abstract Composition II (Kairos Series), 2024
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Details
Signed in red crayon on the reverse of the panel.
Sizes:
Artwork: 154.5 × 153.5 cm | 60.8 × 60.4 in
A square metre and a half of gesture: sweeping strokes of ultramarine, cobalt, forest green and chrome yellow driven across a white ground with the whole arm, a dark blue mass at the upper left, a spray of blue drops at the lower right where the brush left the panel. The painting belongs to Rahim El’s ‘Kairos’ series of 2024, named for the Greek word for the right moment, and is painted as a dancer moves: in one session, without correction, each stroke the record of a movement.
Rahim El (born 1984 in Dushanbe), trained at the Stroganov Academy in Moscow and the Barcelona Academy of Art and formed by his years at the Dushanbe Opera and Ballet, paints the ’emotions of colours’ that music and dance leave behind. The work comes directly from the artist’s Barcelona studio; its pair, ‘Abstract Composition I’ from the same series, was sold in our July 2026 sale.
Provenance
Directly from the artist’s studio, Barcelona.
Condition Report
Acrylic on a wooden panel in its original strainer. The paint layer is stable and clean, with no losses observed; the panel flat; unframed, ready to hang. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report.
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Packed as size — · 154.5 × 153.5 cm
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| Starting price | Low estimate | High estimate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hammer price | €3,000 | €4,000 | €5,000 |
| Buyer’s premium 25% (IVA included) | €750 | €1,000 | €1,250 |
| Total on auroraathena.com | €3,750 | €5,000 | €6,250 |
| Total through a bidding platform (30%) | €3,900 | €5,200 | €6,500 |
Through LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Drouot or Bidspirit the premium is 30%: the same hammer of €5,000 costs €6,500 there against €6,250 here. Shipping and insurance are quoted separately; the estimator below gives the figure for your country. Buyers outside the EU pay no Spanish tax on the lot; the destination’s import rules apply (United States: original paintings and drawings enter duty-free; United Kingdom: 5% import VAT on art). Card payments are accepted up to €10,000; larger amounts by bank transfer.
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How does the estimate compare with the artist’s recent auction results?
The estimate of €4,000–€5,000 is our opinion of the range this work should reach; the starting price of €3,000 is the lowest bid we accept. We have not published comparable results for this lot; ask us before the sale and we will send the results we based the estimate on.
What will this lot cost in total?
Bidding on this site, the buyer’s premium is 25%, Spanish IVA included, and there is no VAT on the hammer price and no card fee: at the starting price of €3,000 the total is €3,750; at the low estimate of €4,000 the total is €5,000; at the high estimate of €5,000 the total is €6,250.
Through LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Drouot or Bidspirit the premium is 30%, so the same hammer of €5,000 costs €6,500 there. Shipping and insurance are quoted separately; the estimator on this page gives the figure for your country. Buyers outside the EU pay no Spanish tax on the lot; the destination’s import rules apply (United States: original paintings and drawings enter duty-free; United Kingdom: 5% import VAT on art). Card payments are accepted up to €10,000; larger amounts by bank transfer.
How is this lot catalogued?
Under the artist’s name without qualification. Provenance, dating, condition and value are described to the best of our knowledge; the sale is governed by the Conditions of Sale.
Can I see the condition report, more photographs or the work itself?
A condition report with ultraviolet photographs is prepared on request, normally within two working days; the condition summary on this page is examined in-house and is not a conservator’s report. Further photographs of any detail, the reverse or the frame are sent on request. The work can be examined in our Barcelona showroom by appointment before the sale, and you are welcome to send your own conservator or specialist.
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Rahim El
Rahim El was born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, in 1984, of Persian and Russian roots, and came to painting through the stage: his early years were spent at the Dushanbe Opera and Ballet Theatre, and music and dance have shaped his painting ever since. He trained at the Stroganov Academy of Art and Industry in Moscow and, after a period of experiment in New York in 2009–2010 and a decade of painting, sculpture and performance in Moscow, settled in Catalonia in 2022, where he completed his studies at the Barcelona Academy of Art.
His canvases and panels are large, gestural and bright: sweeping strokes of blue, green, yellow and red laid down with the whole arm over a white ground, in series with musical titles, ‘Emotions of Colors’, ‘Symphony’, ‘Kairos’, that treat painting as a record of movement and feeling rather than an image of anything.
He has held solo exhibitions in Moscow (‘Emotions of Colors’, Aptekarsky Ogorod, 2019; ‘Without an Example’, Kaolin-Space, 2022) and Barcelona (‘Symphony’, 2024, and ‘Depths of Perception’, 2025, both at Galería Atelier), taken part in group shows and fairs in Madrid, Barcelona, Sitges, Miami and Moscow, and won second prize at the Concurs de Pintura Humet-Saula at Calella in 2023. He is a member of the International Federation of Arts, and his work is in private collections in Europe, Russia and the United States.
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