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1916 Beirut, Lebanon - 2017 Beirut, Lebanon. Known for: Abstract geometric small painting and sculpture.
"Saloua Raouda Choucair, Early Exponent of Abstract Arabian Art, Dies at 100" by William Grimes, February 17, 2017, The New York Times. Saloua Raouda Choucair, a Lebanese artist and one of the first... Read full biography
"Saloua Raouda Choucair, Early Exponent of Abstract Arabian Art, Dies at 100" by William Grimes, February 17, 2017, The New York Times. Saloua Raouda Choucair, a Lebanese artist and one of the first abstractionists in the Arab world, whose sense of line and form — derived from Islamic art — brought... Read full biography
"Saloua Raouda Choucair, Early Exponent of Abstract Arabian Art, Dies at 100" by William Grimes, February 17, 2017, The New York Times. Saloua Raouda Choucair, a Lebanese artist and one of the first abstractionists in the Arab world, whose sense of line and form — derived from Islamic art — brought a new idiom to modernism, died on Jan. 26 at her home in Beirut. She was 100. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Hala Schoukair. It was not until she was in her 90s that Ms. Choucair... Read full biography
"Saloua Raouda Choucair, Early Exponent of Abstract Arabian Art, Dies at 100" by William Grimes, February 17, 2017, The New York Times. Saloua Raouda Choucair, a Lebanese artist and one of the first abstractionists in the Arab world, whose sense of line and form — derived from Islamic art — brought a new idiom to modernism, died on Jan. 26 at her home in Beirut. She was 100. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Hala Schoukair. It was not until she was in her 90s that Ms. Choucair (pronounced shoo-CARE), who lived and worked nearly all her life in Beirut, gained recognition outside Lebanon as an unsung hero of the modernist story, a distinctive, eloquent artist relegated to the margins of a traditionally Western narrative. Out of place... Read full biography
"Saloua Raouda Choucair, Early Exponent of Abstract Arabian Art, Dies at 100" by William Grimes, February 17, 2017, The New York Times. Saloua Raouda Choucair, a Lebanese artist and one of the first abstractionists in the Arab world, whose sense of line and form — derived from Islamic art — brought a new idiom to modernism, died on Jan. 26 at her home in Beirut. She was 100. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Hala Schoukair. It was not until she was in her 90s that Ms. Choucair (pronounced shoo-CARE), who lived and worked nearly all her life in Beirut, gained recognition outside Lebanon as an unsung hero of the modernist story, a distinctive, eloquent artist relegated to the margins of a traditionally Western narrative. Out of place in her native country, too, for many years, she worked in obscurity — persevering through Lebanon’s civil war in the... Read full biography
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