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ein-bleistift-und-radiergummi: “Saloua Raouda Choucair ‘Self Portrait’ 1943 - Courtesy Tate Modern. Choucair was one of the first painters and sculptors in Lebanon to work with abstraction, and her 1947 exhibition at Beirut’s Arab Cultural Gallery is... View Larger

ein-bleistift-und-radiergummi:

Saloua Raouda Choucair ‘Self Portrait’ 1943 -  Courtesy Tate Modern.

Choucair was one of the first painters and sculptors in Lebanon to work with abstraction, and her 1947 exhibition at Beirut’s Arab Cultural Gallery is thought to have been the first abstract painting show in the Arab world. 

Choucair first started painting in a more figurative style in the studios of the Lebanese artists Moustafa Farroukh and Omar Onsi. In 1943, she traveled to Cairo, and became fascinated with Islamic architecture, an enduring influence in her oeuvre (she was also interested in Modernist architecture, with Le Corbusier being a favourite.

Saloua Raouda Choucair died on January 26 2007 in Beirut, at the age of 100.

(Source: crggallery.com)

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