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After 7 Months And 1,400 Gallons Of Paint, 1 Seriously Large Painting Is Finally Done

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Artist Sacha Jafri, standing on his gigantic painting entitled "The Journey of Humanity," hopes to raise $30 million to fund health and education initiatives for children living in poverty worldwide. Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Artist Sacha Jafri, standing on his gigantic painting entitled "The Journey of Humanity," hopes to raise $30 million to fund health and education initiatives for children living in poverty worldwide.

It only took seven months, 20-hour work days and 1,400 gallons of paint, but one of the largest paintings ever to be attempted is now complete.

British artist Sacha Jafri made his final brush stroke this month atop two gutted ballroom floors of Dubai's Atlantis resort, his canvas for the brightly colored oil painting, titled "The Journey of Humanity."

At roughly 17,000 square feet, the painting is about the size of three-and-a-half basketball courts. Jafri says he used 1,100 brushes and more than 300 layers of paint to create the painting.

He couldn't have done it without the help of some smaller artists — he incorporated artwork electronically submitted by children from over 140 countries.

"The child has this beautiful purity and the child is most connected to the soul of the Earth because the child is all about that beginning of life, that purity," Jafri said. "They have the freedom of expression."

The painting is about connection, Jafri said, and is made up of four sections. The first depicts the "soul of the Earth," which flows into the remaining sections: nature, humanity and lastly, the solar system.

"I felt that we had become a little disconnected as humans," he said. "I felt that the world had become full of static. And when the world becomes full of static, it's a real problem because we're made of energy. So we can't communicate with each other because there's too much static in the way."

Jafri plans to cut the gargantuan canvas into 60 separate panels, each piece a reminder of the artist's philosophy.

"If we can remind ourselves how small we are, we can actually embrace humility. And with humility, we can become truly great," he said.

The panels will be auctioned off at a February charity event to support online learning, health care and sanitation in impoverished communities around the world further devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. He hopes to raise $30 million in partnership with The Global Gift Foundation, UNICEF, UNESCO and Dubai Cares.

NPR's Milton Guevara, Chad Campbell and Simone Popperl produced this story for broadcast. Emma Bowman adapted it for the Web.

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Size apparently does matter—at least for one painter, whose latest work is poised to break a world record and make millions for charity in the process.

British contemporary artist Sacha Jafri is currently working on what will be the world’s largest canvas painting. When the artist finishes the 21,000-square-foot The Journey of Humanity next month, he intends to cut it up into smaller segments to be sold at auction, according to Jafri’s website . His goal: to raise at least $30,000,000 for children in need.

Jafri was visiting the United Arab Emirates five months ago when the coronavirus pandemic first started to spread around the world. Stuck in Dubai once the country introduced lockdown measures, he decided to do what he does best and began working on the massive painting—which is the same size as two full-sized football fields or four basketball courts—in a cavernous conference room at the luxurious Atlantis, The Palm hotel.

Painted in his self-described “magical realism” style, the painting is meant to convey feelings of connection, separation and isolation brought on by the pandemic. In addition to Jafri’s trademark brushwork and drip painting, the piece also features eight “portals” that incorporate art created by children from around the globe. The children’s work was submitted through the artist’s website.

Sacha Jafri and ‘The Journey of Humanity’  Pyong Sumaria/Atlantis, The Palm

By the time the project finishes next month, Jafri is expected to have spent 24 weeks painting The Journey of Humanity. At that point, the sprawling canvas will be cut into 60 pieces, each measuring around 100 square feet and individually framed so they can be sold at an auction scheduled to be held in Dubai in December. Jafri told CNN last week that he could see some pieces going for upwards of $4 million.

“We are aiming to raise $30 million, which will go to help the poorest children of the world with education, connectivity, health and sanitation,” he told the network. “Each person that buys a panel will (not only) own a piece of the largest painting ever created in the world, but they’ll own a piece of history, because what we’re doing with that money is huge.”

Proceeds from the sale of The Journey of Humanity will go to benefit Humanity Inspired. The initiative partners a number of charities, including Unicef and Unesco, with the goal of helping children worldwide, specifically in bridging the digital access gap between industrial and developing nations.

Bryan Hood is a digital staff writer at Robb Report. Before joining the magazine, he worked for the New York Post, Artinfo and New York magazine, where he covered everything from celebrity gossip to…

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World’s Largest Painting Sells for $62 M. at Dubai Auction

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At 17,000 square feet, Sacha Jafri ‘s The Journey of Humanity (2020), an abstraction featuring drips, whorls, and splatters of various hues, is the world’s largest painting, as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. This week, the grand canvas was sold for a fittingly epic price at an auction in Dubai.

On Tuesday, The Journey of Humanity sold for $62 million at an auction held at Atlantis, The Palm hotel. The sale puts it among the most expensive artworks by a living artist ever sold at auction, and it is not far behind behind a $69 million Beeple NFT piece that sold at Christie’s earlier this month.

Jafri’s plan had initially been to slice up the painting and sell it in 60 segments to raise $30 million to support “global digital equality.” Those paintings were intended to have been sold in four auctions.

But the work instead ultimately sold as one, and it went to Andre Abdoune , chief executive of Altius Gestion International Holding, according to the Emirati outlet National . The proceeds will go a variety of organizations, including UNICEF, UNESCO, the U.A.E.’s Ministry of Education, and the Global Gift Foundation.

Jafri, who has not previously had a major presence at auction, painted The Journey of Humanity over the course of several months last year at the Atlantis. The resulting canvas includes more than 300 layers of paint and is the size of two football fields. He has previously sold his art to benefit charitable organizations, with actress Eva Longoria, musician Paul McCartney, and former U.S. President Barack Obama reportedly among his buyers.

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Sacha Jafri reveals the backbreaking process of creating 'world's largest painting' that sold for $62m

The work sold to cryptocurrency entrepreneur andre abdoune and all proceeds will be donated to four charities fighting child poverty.

Sacha Jafri in front of part of the painting Courtesy of Humanity Inspired

Sacha Jafri may not be a well-known name in the global art community.

But the Dubai-, London- and New York-based artist has just become the fourth most expensive living artist at auction, behind David Hockney, Jeff Koons and, of course, Beeple.

Jafri's enormous 18,000 sq. ft. painting , The Journey of Humanity— which holds the Guinness World Record for the "largest art canvas"—sold in a charity auction in Dubai on 22 March for $62m. The sale was organised by the artist's “Humanity Inspired” initiative and all proceeds will be donated to four charities to fight child poverty: Unicef, Unesco, The Global Gift Foundation and Dubai Cares.

Remarkably, this was more than 900 times Jafri's previous auction record, judging by Artnet's price database, which says it stood at 2,160,000 TWD with fees ($70,745) for a painting sold at the Taiwan-based auction house Ravenel in 2019. Only yesterday, another painting being sold for charity had the knock-on effect of boosting an artist's auction record— Banksy's Game Changer, sold for £16.7m at Christie's .

The buyer of The Journey of Humanity was the French-born, Dubai-based French crypto-entrepreneur Andre Abdoune, the chief executive of Altius Gestion International Holding, who now plans to build a museum in Dubai to house the work.

Jafri painted the work during the Covid-19 lockdown in the vast ballroom of the hotel Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai. "I was in a trance, painting for eight months, 20 hours a day," he tells The Art Newspaper of the process. Jafri found himself stuck in Dubai when lockdown hit: "2020 was meant to be the biggest year of my career—I had my big 18-year retrospective at the Saatchi Gallery and I was doing a painting for Dubai Expo and the painting for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. Then everything got cancelled."

Hence this project.

Jafri painting in the Atlantis ballroom, Dubai Courtesy of Humanity Inspired

Jafri felt "the world had become full of negative static energy" before the pandemic. Then: "Covid hit and there was a silence. And I had this vision in my mind of a painting that could evoke that silence and provoke really societal change."

At first he approached Emirates airline to use one of their aircraft hangars to paint the work but they suggested approaching Atlantis about using its ballroom. "I slept in the ballroom for eight months," Jafri says. "My wife and daughter had a room upstairs—I never got to sleep in it. And whenever my daughter was in the ballroom, it's a bit boring watching daddy paint for 20 hours so she played in her Wendy House in the corner of the room. So it was a surreal time. We were the only people in the hotel—my daughter was scootering around the Atlantis Hotel, totally empty."

Physically, it took its toll, he says: "I paint a bit like Pollock. I'm standing but I have to bend down to paint. This was a 18,000 sq. ft. canvas but I'm painting using a 1.5 inch brush, so you can do a lot of damage to yourself. I had an emergency back operation, putting a rod through my spin and putting fake cushioning between two of the vertebrae. My pelvis went out of line on both axis—my skeleton was out of line. And then my heels disconnected from my feet. It was insane. I was having painkiller injections every four hours in my hip."

Despite the painting being the size of two football fields, he says: "I had no helpers, no assistants, because I'm a bit of a control freak." Completing the painting used 1,065 brushes and 6,300 litres of paint, a homemade mix of household paints, artists' acrylics, linseed oil and raw oil pigment.

As for the canvas, Jafri says he got lucky: "I called a supplier who had a lot of canvas in the warehouse which had been intended for the Dubai Expo 2020, but that has been delayed of course".

Jafri with Andre Abdoune, who bought the painting Courtesy of Humanity Inspired

Once finished, the canvas was cut up and put on stretchers with the plan to sell the work as smaller paintings over six auctions, including one at the World Economic Forum in Davos. "I was going to be the first artist to speak at Davos in the main forum, we were going to do a dinner with the '150 of Davos' and sell works—with Bezos, Zuckerberg, all the big guys," Jafri tells us.

The work has hung on view in its entirety at Atlantis, The Palm for the past three months. "This guy kept coming in, with a thick French accent, and saying 'Sacha, you can't break up this painting, it would be a travesty.'" Jafri says. "He came in seven days in a row for about four or five hours a day."

That man was Abdoune.

At Monday night's auction, telephone bids came in from "Miami, LA, Mexico, South America, London, a lot in Switzerland—I guess that's all the boys who have made a lot of money in crypto—China and Hong Kong," Jafri says. "Then Andre bid at $50m and he got it at $62m."

Of Abdoune's intended museum, Jafri says: "The type of country it is, you might be helped out by the rulers, they might give us some land. We want to create a spiritual place, like Rothko's Church in Nevada." He adds they also hope to hold workshops for special needs and underprivileged children: "Fly them to Dubai for like a week, put them up—there will be living quarters where they can sleep. There will be a kitchen—it will be like a soup kitchen for the orphaned refugees of the world."

And to clarify, Abdoune is paying in dollars, not cyptocurrencies. "He's already made a sizeable deposit, and he is paying the rest in three instalments in three instalments over a six week period," Jafri says.

Sacha Jafri: The Journey of Humanity and 18 Year Retrospective Collection

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A New Balanced , 2019

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76.77 x 76.77 in.

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170 x 170 cm

In Balance, In Beauty , 2019

76.77 x 102.36 in. 

195 x 26 0 cm

On the Wings of an Angel , 2018

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86.6 x 122.05 in

220 x 310 cm

Press Release

Leila Heller is excited to announce two groundbreaking collections by world renowned, British Artist, Sacha Jafri - his long awaited ‘18 Year Retrospective’ and ‘The Journey of Humanity’, which sits under his record breaking charitable initiative, ‘Humanity Inspired’. 

In Jafri’s words: “ ‘The Journey of Humanity’ is the culmination of my career to date, it has been my own, personal journey of Art & Philanthropy. The power of these two collections coming together will be historical & breathtaking.” 

18 Year Retrospective 

The 18-year Retrospective (2001 – 2019), having launched at the Saatchi Gallery in 2019 (the World Tour having been paused due to the Covid-19 pandemic), will be re-launched at Leila Heller Gallery from 20th January to 31st May 2021. This seminal moment will be the first time Jafri’s greatest works, from the much anticipated 18 Year Retrospective, will be available for sale. 

‘The Journey of Humanity’ 

Jafri’s record-breaking painting, ‘The Journey of Humanity’, scales over 17,000 square feet and was created in the Ballroom at Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai, which was converted into the largest art studio in the world, for a period of seven months during Covid-19 (Feb-Oct 2020). 

Jafri, having worked 20 hours a day, for a seven-month period, using 1400 gallons of paint and over a thousand brushes, now officially holds the Guinness World Records title for the ‘Largest Art Canvas’ in the world. 

Since moving from the Atlantis Ballroom, this monumental painting has been broken down into numbered, signed, catalogued, and framed canvases. 70 individually framed pieces of ‘The Journey of Humanity’ will be sold across four auctions in 2021, for Humanity Inspired and aims to raise more than USD$30 million. The charitable initiative is part of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Global Initiatives and is now considered the largest worldwide social, artistic and philanthropic initiative in history. 

Humanity Inspired has already reached over 2.5bn people across the world, in over 140 countries. 

Jafri, widely known as one of our greatest Humanitarian Artists is committed to supporting the reshaping of the future of education through global connectivity, as well as providing funds, infrastructure and support for healthcare and sanitation in the world’s poorest regions. The Humanity Inspired initiative is working in partnership with Dubai Cares, UNICEF, UNESCO, The Global Gift Foundation, UNHCR, and the UAE Government. 

Prior to the Humanity Inspired auctions, the painting will return to the Atlantis Ballroom for a Royal Unveiling on the 25th February 2021. This will be the first time that the canvas is ‘reunited’, with each framed piece assembled, recreating the original painting which is now described as the ‘Modern Day Sistine Chapel’. To celebrate the unveiling, guests will be inspired by a performance from one of opera’s greatest talents, Juan Diego Flórez. 

“I hope for my work to act as an electric shock to our senses, ignite and inspire the spirit, uplift the soul, re awaken something that often lies dormant or asleep within, and keep the beauty, the purity, and the magic of the child within us all forever.” 

Jafri’s 18-Year Retrospective, along with select pieces of The Journey of Humanity, will be on first display at Leila Heller Gallery from January 20th 2021.

For sales inquiries, please reach out to Leila Heller at [email protected] & Shanti Veigas at [email protected] 

For press inquiries, reach out to [email protected] & Ella at [email protected]

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World's largest painting created in Dubai by Sacha Jafri sells for record-breaking $62 million

Jafri's piece 'the journey of humanity' was sold in its entirety during the opening auction.

Artist Sacha Jafri poses with the painting on September 9, 2020 in Dubai. Getty Images

Seven months, 1,065 paintbrushes, 6,300 litres of paint and $62 million – Sacha Jafri has pulled off one of the art world's greatest feats with the sale of his record-breaking canvas The Journey of Humanity .

From April until September, the British contemporary artist used the ballroom of Dubai’s Atlantis, The Palm, to make the world’s largest art canvas – officially certified by Guinness World Records – measuring 1,800 square metres and spanning more than two football fields placed end to end.

The finished piece, which has been on display at the hotel over the past few weeks, was cut into 70 pieces and was set to be sold across four auctions this year with the hopes of raising $30m for charity. However, the piece was sold in its entirety to Andre Abdoune, chief executive of Altius Gestion International Holding, during an auction in Dubai on Monday for a staggering $62m.

#HappeningNow the #OpeningAuction of @SachaJafri ' record breaking #artwork #TheJourneyOfHumanity is achieved great interest! It actually has enough interest to be sold entirely to one bidder! pic.twitter.com/e2E4EcGg1z — Mazdak (@MazRaf75) March 22, 2021

Video footage from the auction, held in the room where the artwork was created, shows the moment the hammer came down on the most expensive artwork ever sold in the UAE.

“This gentleman here is helping to make dreams come true, this gentleman here is helping to make history, this gentleman here is going to be the talk of the town,” the auctioneer says.

'World’s largest painting' sold for $62 million at charity auction

An emotional Jafri can be seen jumping on to his table and holding his head in disbelief, before going to embrace Abdoune.

"It was my dream in my life to do something amazing for my children, for my father," Abdoune said in a statement following the sale. "I talked with Sacha and I discovered the investment and love he put into this painting was so amazing.

"All my life I was aiming to help children. When I was a child, I had nothing to eat. Now I have something to eat. We all have to do something. Every dollar can mean something. If we do it together, we give hope to these children and their future. The UAE shows us the way, we have to follow it. The impossible is possible. I want to say that this is just the first step for 'Humanity Inspired'."

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The funds will be split between Dubai Cares, Unicef, Unesco and Global Gift Foundation. Partners from the public sector in the UAE including the Ministry of Tolerance and Coexistence and Ministry of Education also joined the initiative.

One of the programmes to benefit will be Unicef’s Giga project, an initiative launched last year alongside the International Telecommunication Union with the aim of connecting every school in the world to the internet. The initiative will also support Unesco in its efforts towards facilitating the production and endorsement of a Global Declaration on Connectivity for Learning and Livelihood, which aims to make connected learning more inclusive and more equitable, and will be launched by Dubai Cares and its partners during Expo 2020 Dubai.

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Jafri, who lives in Dubai, spent 20 hours a day creating the work. To help fill the canvas, the artist invited children from around the world to send in their drawings themed around isolation and connection, which were then used for the first layer of the painting.

The final version contains more than 300 layers of paint. The finished work was unveiled on February 25 by Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak,Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, and Dr Tariq Al Gurg, chief executive of Dubai Cares.

Jafri is no stranger to using his work to raise funds for charity, having raised more than $60m already over the course of his 20-year career. He has acted as a long-time ambassador for the Global Gift Foundation, which is run by Maria Bravo and Eva Longoria. His work has previously been auctioned to benefit the Start Foundation in Dubai, La Pegasus Polo Centre in northern India and the mental health initiative Heads Together, run by the UK's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, among other causes. His collectors are starrier than most artists could ever dream of.

This includes former US president Barack Obama, members of the British royal family, Sir Richard Branson, Sir Paul McCartney, David Beckham, George Clooney and Longoria herself, according to Jafri's bio.

World's largest painting — the size of 10 tennis courts — sells for $78M

Sacha jafri's painting, the journey of humanity, based on artwork created by children during the pandemic.

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Sacha Jafri is "still a bit overwhelmed" after someone bought his last year's work — a massive, laboriously made painting — for $78 million.

Guinness World Records considers the piece, called  The Journey of Humanity, to be the world's largest canvas painting , measuring 1,595.76 square metres — about the size of 10 tennis courts, says Jafri. 

The artist split the painting into 70 individual pieces to sell. But he says he was moved to learn there was one buyer who was so inspired by the artwork, he decided to take the whole lot.

"He showed his love of the painting and he was proud to do it. That meant so much to me," Jafri told As It Happens host Carol Off. 

The British artist was working in Dubai when the world went into lockdown at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

He thought about the themes of connection and isolation, and decided to put a call out to children around the world, through ministries and schools, to share their experiences with him through art. His painting is based on the stories he saw in their work.

"We got millions of artworks from children [in] over 140 countries … from every walk of life … from orphans to refugees to the wealthy," Jafri said.

"I pasted a lot of their artwork into these huge circular portals that I created in the painting. So the idea was you'd have The Journey of Humanity  — my painting — and that's the world as we know it. But I wanted to lead us to a better world through these circular portals, through the hearts, minds and souls of our children."

The images the kids sent Jafri were mostly dealing with how the pandemic was changing their lives, he said.

"They were just exposing how they felt. It was just truth. There was pain. There was fear. There was a feeling of disconnection … frustration," he said. "But then [there was] a huge amount of hope and love."

For the next eight months, Jafri worked on the painting at the Atlantis Palm hotel in Dubai, where his canvas was just able to fit inside the ballroom.

Once finished, he planned to sell the work to fund health, sanitation and education initiatives for children living in poverty.

"I believe that our childhood is our greatest gift," he said. "And, sadly, it's the first thing we're taught or encouraged to move on from … As an adult, we should use all our power inside us to keep the child alive forever."

Jafri painted for 20 hours a day over the course of eight months to create the work. He used 1,065 paint brushes and 6,300 litres of paint. 

He covered every inch of the painting all on his own, but not without the impact of carrying all those paint cans from one end of the canvas to the other, and then stretching and bending enough for his brush to reach each spot.

"I did a lot of damage to my body," he said. "I paint from a very sort of deep, meditative state. So I'm in a trance. I don't realize the damage I'm doing. 

"I actually had to have [an] emergency operation on my back. Both my two vertebrae came out completely because the cushioning had gone. So they had to do an emergency operation and put a pole through my spine. My pelvis went out of line on both axes and my heels actually just disconnected from my feet."

But he kept going, and people around him noticed. One of them ended up being the buyer, Andre Abdoune, a French national living in Dubai who has a cryptocurrency business.

"This guy just kept coming in and looking at it … [he] broke down in tears," Jafri said. "I could see he was having a very spiritual connection."

Abdoune visited Jafri five days in a row, for several hours each day. He thought it would be a "travesty" to split the painting into 70 pieces in order to raise funds, Jafri said.

And then they ran out of things to talk about, and Jafri said he'd just let him stay there to observe the painting.

When the auction took place on Monday, Jafri aimed to sell his artwork in batches for $30 million US to raise money for charities including UNICEF, UNESCO, Global Gift Foundation and Dubai Cares. 

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People called in from Miami, Mexico, and L.A., as well as Switzerland, China, India and Russia to bid on the pieces. There weren't many bids from the Middle East, but Jafri noticed one person in the auction house who he recognized.

"This guy was in the room and I noticed it was him. I think his first bid was at $50 mill. And I was like, 'Whoa, OK, this could be interesting … And it just kept firing up and up."

Jafri says he's grateful to the buyer, who plans to build a museum to house the work.

Written by Mehek Mazhar with files from Reuters. Interview producer by John McGill.

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The World’s Largest Painting – The Biggest Painting in the World

Ever wondered what the largest painting in the world is or who painted the biggest painting in the world? Look no further. In 2020, the Guinness Book of World Records certified this massive 17,000-ft² painting called The Journey of Humanity (2020) by Sacha Jafri as the world’s largest painting to ever exist. This article will tell you everything you need to know about the world’s largest painting, including who painted it and what it is worth.

Table of Contents

• 1 Artist Abstract: Sacha Jafri
• 2 The World’s Largest Painting: The Journey of Humanity (2020)
• 3.1 Putting the Pain in Painting
• 4 A Surrealist Exploration of the Subconscious
• 5.1 What Is the Biggest Painting in the World?
• 5.2 What Is the Largest Oil Painting in the World?
• 5.3 How Much Paint Was Used to Make the World’s Largest Painting?

Artist Abstract: Sacha Jafri

Born in 1977, Sacha Jafri is a well-established contemporary artist who is most famous for his record-breaking production of the world’s largest painting, The Journey of Humanity , in 2020. Jafri is an artist who operates exclusively from the regular art gallery scene.

Many of his works are often donated and sent as proceeds to charity organizations.

Jafri is also a graduate of Eton boarding school, a prestigious British institution that received other high-profile figures like the Duke of Cornwall, and Prince William. Among Jefri’s collectors are other famous celebrities and public figures, including the likes of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, Sir Richard Branson, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, and even members of the British royal family .

The World’s Largest Painting: The Journey of Humanity (2020)

In 2020, Sacha Jafri embarked on a mission inspired by the needs of the global youth as highlighted by the pandemic, to create a massive painting that would be sold off on auction and for the proceeds to be donated to various charity organizations aimed at helping children in need.

The enormous stretch of just over 17,000 ft² of canvas is now known as the largest canvas painting in the world.

The painting consists of 70 separate segments, which were initially supposed to be auctioned off separately but were finally sold for a whopping $62 million in Dubai to a French national, Andre Abdoune, who was very much touched by the artist’s work and intention.

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Abdoune states in an interview on the purchase of the massive painting that he too experienced poverty growing up, therefore, he sympathized with the sentiments of helping children in need, further stating that “the painting was very powerful” when he saw it. The cryptocurrency businessman also spoke on the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic had on children across the globe, for which he was more than happy to contribute to the improvement of the situation in any way he could.

While Sacha Jafri holds the title for creating the world’s largest painting, the Guinness Book of World Records states that the world’s largest oil painting executed by a single artist was done by Sarans K. K. on November 25, 2021, in Abu Dhabi and sits at approximately 1,787.13 ft².

The Making of the World’s Biggest Painting

Most Guinness World Record-certified works are created with the intention of getting into the book and gaining the reputation associated with accomplishing a unique project. The largest painting in the world, according to Sacha Jafri, did not intend for the artwork to become the largest painting in the world. The British artist mentions the fact that 90% of children in the world are unable to feel “safe, loved, and brave.”

This large-scale art project began as an open call for children from across the globe to submit their artworks during the pandemic. The artwork received amounted to artwork from over 140 countries, as children were requested to share their feelings and artistic expressions surrounding isolation and loneliness during the pandemic.

The artwork of children from 140 countries was the foundation of Jafri’s artwork. He called this the first layer of his painting. Each of the artworks was carefully pasted onto the 70 canvases and represented portals. According to Jafri, the portals served as “windows into a better future”.

The final painting was created using numerous layers of paint and layered artwork. Jafri believes that if a child is unable to feel either safe, loved, or brave, then this limits the child’s ability to dream and we, therefore, limit the growth and development of the next generation.

The biggest painting in the world, The Journey of Humanity , is divided into five sections. The first section, as Jafri attributes it, is called the Soul of the Earth . This portion of the painting serves to represent the energy that rises back up in a colorful array of long wavy lines of paint, to help unite humanity into the Earth.

This section then flows into the second portion of the painting, “Nature”, represented by child-like abstract images and vivid expressions of trees, rivers, and naturalistic hues.

The third portion of the painting is defined as The Arrival of Humanity and is representative of the journey of the child. Jafri describes this journey as the stage at which parents guide children and not attempt to change them. In this portion of the painting, the forms appear more “grown-up” with solid shapes and in-filled colors, and clearly defined patterns.

The next stage of the painting is a representation of the Solar System , which is portrayed as a darkened purple sky with a multitude of planets, glistening stars, and dancing cosmic colors shooting across the canvas. The final section of the painting is the Child’s Portal .

Putting the Pain in Painting

Sacha Jafri completed the painting in approximately eight months, working tirelessly for 20 hours each day. The painting took place at the Palm in Dubai, in the massive ballroom of the Atlantis hotel. According to reports, Jafri was scheduled for his own 18-year retrospective show with Saatchi Gallery, including other important projects for the Tokyo Olympics and the Dubai Expo but everything was canceled in light of the pandemic lockdown.

Jafri was essentially stuck in Dubai but this did not halt his creative pursuits. According to the artist, he “slept in the ballroom for eight months” even though he had a room at the hotel.

As grandiose as the project may seem, the task of execution did not come without a price to the artist. At some point, Jafri had to face an emergency operation, which required a rod through his spine and extra cushioning between two of his vertebrae. In addition to this, his skeleton was completely unaligned and Jafri was eventually on painkillers every four hours. The excruciating nature of the process was, however, still fruitful as the painting was sold and the proceeds were donated to four charities.

A Surrealist Exploration of the Subconscious

In The Journey of Humanity , Jafri not only draws relations to the act of an artist moving outside of the realm of the gallery space and artistic expression with the intention of commercial gain and ownership but he also includes in his act of humanity, the artist as more than just a job for fame and personal gain. His large philanthropic and social art project sold for quite a lot of money, of which the proceeds were distributed to helping children and vulnerable communities in need.

Along with the act of displaying humanity through the use of art as a medium and his body as a vessel for painting this massive artwork, Jafri also highlights the use of the subconscious in the creation of the artwork.

To create the artwork definitely required a considerable amount of physical strain and effort, coupled with meditation and Jafri’s reflections on the state of humanity, the act of using his body as a channeling medium through which he pours out the soul of the world, and his hope for a brighter future.

The intriguing aspect of the artwork is that the painting, which is Surrealist in nature, also carries with it the subconscious of Jafri, who attempted to rid himself of ego and anything standing in the way, as a selfless act of channeling the soul of the world, its Anima Mundi . This meant that he also channeled his inner child and the act of evoking the inner child in a world run by selfish gain, was also an act of channeling the children of the world. Thus the soul of the world cannot exist without the beauty of creation and child-like wonder found in children – the soul of the child.

Jafri also builds on his intention behind evoking the soul of the world in The Journey of Humanity as a painting that should serve as a “shock to the senses” of the adult who is very much centered in their three-dimensional reality. This “shock” is meant to reactivate the dormant quality of creativity, a trait that most people tend to leave behind in childhood. Unlike most artists, Jafri chose to engage with his audience in the “least conceptual way possible” by appealing to the “raw emotion” and purity of spirit evoked in the act of painting.

Jafri’s production of the world’s largest canvas painting was also an attempt to keep the soul of the child alive, with the afterlife of the painting putting into effect real-life change across the world. The focus of Jafri’s work is also not so much on the destination and visual output of the artwork but it is more so on the process and “in-between moments” of making that give the artwork its true essence.

The process behind the construction of the world’s largest painting is definitely one that can be considered the most physical strain endured by a living artist for the sake of resurrecting the soul of the world and leveraging a more philanthropic approach to artistic expression and artmaking.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the biggest painting in the world.

The biggest painting in the world is considered to be The Journey of Humanity (2020) by Sacha Jafri.

What Is the Largest Oil Painting in the World?

The largest oil painting in the world is considered to be a massive 1787.1ft² portrait painting showcasing the various portraits of leaders from the United Arab Emirates. The painting was executed by an Indian artist called Sarans K. K. in 2021.

How Much Paint Was Used to Make the World’s Largest Painting?

Sacha Jafri used approximately 6,300 liters of paint, which included oil, acrylic, and homemade paints paired with roughly 1065 paintbrushes, to create the world’s largest painting.

Isabella studied at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English Literature & Language and Psychology. Throughout her undergraduate years, she took Art History as an additional subject and absolutely loved it. Building on from her art history knowledge that began in high school, art has always been a particular area of fascination for her. From learning about artworks previously unknown to her, or sharpening her existing understanding of specific works, the ability to continue learning within this interesting sphere excites her greatly.

Her focal points of interest in art history encompass profiling specific artists and art movements, as it is these areas where she is able to really dig deep into the rich narrative of the art world. Additionally, she particularly enjoys exploring the different artistic styles of the 20 th century, as well as the important impact that female artists have had on the development of art history.

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The World's Largest Canvas Painting Will Be Auctioned in Dubai for Charity

Bigger than two football fields combined..

British artist Sacha Jafri is currently getting his hands covered in colorful paint to complete the world’s largest canvas painting in Dubai. Titled The Journey of Humanity , the artwork spans 1,800 square meters and is bigger than two football fields combined.

Jafri is using a massive room inside the luxury hotel Atlantis in Dubai to finish the work which will be unveiled in November. The work will then be divided into 60 smaller canvasses and will go on sale at a gala dinner event in December. The artist, who hopes to raise $30 million USD in the sale of this monumental piece, is described by Humanity Inspired as “widely regarded as one of the world’s most celebrated living artists [who] has raised more than $60 million USD for charities across the world from the sale of his art.”

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The 17,000 square foot painting took more than six months to complete. Image courtesy of: My Modern Met

While most of us spent quarantine sequestered in our houses with our families, the British artist Sacha Jafri spent several months working on breaking an impressive Guinness World Record for creating the largest art canvas. Just as impressive as that task is the price the painting fetched at auction… and further, that Jafri donated half of the sale price to children impacted by the pandemic.

The painting eventually sold at auction for $62 million… the second most expensive painting by a living artist sold at auction. Jafri said (courtesy TRT World), “The aim was always to change the lives of children around the world and try and reconnect humanity. The purity of intention that only children have, did something really powerful.”

The artist and artwork. Image courtesy of: Uncrate

In March 2020, as the pandemic’s grips tightened around the world, Jafri moved to Atlantis The Palm in Dubai to begin his ambitious project. In March 2021, the painting was unveiled to the public. Equivalent to the size of two soccer courts, the painting was evaluated by the Guinness Book of World Records to certify that it was indeed the world’s largest canvas painting.

The artist’s original plan was to cut the enormous painting into sixty smaller paintings to be sold at a charity auction the following month. However, the entire canvas was bought altogether by Andre Abdoune, a Frenchman who lives in Dubai and owns a cryptocurrency business. Interestingly, Abdoune says that he has a “second step” in mind for the painting; he hopes this will bring more awareness and raise more money for charity. However for now, those details have not been shared!

Jafri calls his unique style, “magical realism.” Image courtesy of: CNN

The project was conceived after a conversation with UNICEF where Jafri learned that 385 million children worldwide live in extreme poverty. Those children are twice as likely as others to die in childhood, and these numbers have more than doubled recently due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jafri saw this as an opportunity for change.

The artist said, (courtesy of an interview with Jessica Stewart for My Modern Met), “My painting “The Journey of Humanity” will support the delivery of improved education, healthcare, and connectivity, as well as create vital funds in support of the poorest and most desperately in need areas and regions of our planet. I hope that my ground-breaking creation will help to further advocate global logistical support for health and sanitation within the worst-hit refugee camps, slums, townships, shanties, favelas, and poverty-stricken communities of the world.”

The artist (left) and the buyer (right). The buyer, Abdoune, wants to build a museum to house the mammoth canvas painting. Image courtesy of: BBC , photographed by: Pyong Sumaria

Jafri says that he did not plan anything ahead of time and that there was an organic process to executing such a monumental canvas. After six months of painting for 16-17 hours a day, the magic appeared. Using brushes that are smaller than two inches wide allows Jafri to execute his signature technique. The end product is a canvas that has 200-300 layers of paint where strong imagery appears to come out of nowhere.

He told BBC, “I was in a deep meditative state. I looked through all the [children’s] work – I paint from the subconscious, and then whatever’s in there comes out. Nothing’s planned. There’s no sketches. There were no drawings. I was literally pouring paint, and then putting another layer on top and another layer, another layer, another layer, just feeling my way through it until something magical happened.”

The Atlantis ballroom floor, completely covered! Image courtesy of: The Art Newspaper

The work was back-breaking… literally. Throughout the process, Jafri ruptured two discs; however he continued to work. He says that each day, he would wake up, drink his coffee, hug his daughter, put on his “painter clothes,” and leave for his “office.” Sometimes the long days would blend into early mornings. But Jafri was okay with that because he had a much bigger purpose in mind. The artist stayed focused and forged ahead thanks to the mission of raising $30 million to help the world’s poorest and most vulnerable children. We are so glad that he followed through!

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Inspo February 15, 2021 at 9:12 pm

‘The Journey Of Humanity’ Is Officially The World’s Largest Art Canvas And It’s At Atlantis The Palm

If one person can spend 20 hours a day (on four hours sleep) for seven months continuously, creating a painting of over 17,000 square feet on his own, imagine what 7.5 billion people could do together if we stopped the nonsense of discrimination, judgement and agenda. One World, One Soul, One Planet’.

Wise words by British artist and philanthropist, Sacha Jafri.

If you think the name sounds familiar, that’s because his journey began in Atlantis, The Palm, back in July 2020. His charitable initiative ‘Humanity Inspired’ transformed into a beautiful painting.

Sacha Jafri’s ‘The Journey Of Humanity’ painting holds the World Record for ‘The Largest Art Canvas’ in the world

An impressive 17,000 square feet ‘The Journey Of Humanity’ was created in the ballroom at Atlantis, The Palm while the world was in lockdown. The artwork took seven months to complete. The artist dedicated 20 hours from his day to create his masterpiece. The global reach was PHENOMENAL with over 2.5 BILLION individuals.

The Journey Of Humanity has been broken down into 70 individually framed pieces which will be sold across four auctions sometime in 2021

Humanity Inspired is a charitable initiative aimed to helping children in the poorest regions of the world

Humanity Inspired is aiming to raise $30 million USD for children in the poorest regions of the world and ones that have been most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The charity is launched in partnership with Dubai Cares, Atlantis and is supported by the Ministry of Tolerance and Coexistence and the Ministry of Education in the UAE. With the help of ‘Humanity Inspired,’ charities like Dubai Cares, UNICEF, UNESCO and The Global Gift Foundation will also receive support.

Dubai Cares would like to congratulate Sacha Jafri on this unparalleled accomplishment that will paint a new future for many underprivileged children and youth around the world.

Dr. Tariq Al Gurg, Chief Executive Officer at Dubai Cares and Member of its Board of Directors said.

Record-breaking painting in #Dubai , the Largest Art Canvas in the World, set to raise $30 million for underprivileged youth. https://t.co/TTNThi8EaS pic.twitter.com/mFwzilcB2l — Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) February 15, 2021

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