'Untitled (Family)', a 1965 work by pioneering Saudi-Kuwaiti artist Munira Al Kazi, one of the exhibition's earliest painters. Photo: Barjeel Art Foundation
'Building of Ships' (1966) by pioneering Kuwaiti artist Ibrahim Ismail. He was among the earliest to demonstrate cosmopolitan artistic practices previously unseen in the Arabian Peninsula. Photo: Ibrahim Ismail / Barjeel Art Foundation
Khaleej Modern represents the dawn of Saudi Arabia's modern art with Mohammed Ahmed Rasim. This untitled work was painted in 1967. Photo: The Estate of Mohammed Ahmed Rasim
'Worshippers Leaving the Mosque' (1981) by Abdulrahman Alsoliman, a Saudi fine art pioneer. Photo: Abdulrahman Alsoliman / Barjeel Art Foundation
'Our Green Land' (1977) by Nasser Al Yousif, a member of Bahrain's Manama Group renowned for their explorations of landscape. Photo: Mahmood Nasser Al-Yousif
A 1985 copy of the journal 'Silsilat Al Ramad', distributed with a piece of chewing gum to newspapers and artists across the UAE by the Aqwas collective (Hassan Sharif, Nujoom Alghanem, Khalid Albudoor, Yousef Khalil). Photo: Reem Albudoor
'Bakh Bakh' (1985) by pioneering Emirati artist Hassan Sharif, who died in 2016. Photo: The Estate of Hassan Sharif
'Under the Water' (2004), a video installation looped in a swimming pool, by Hassan Meer, a leading member of Omani group The Circle. Photo: Hassan Meer
