Avni Arbas - Artist Info

About Avni Arbas

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Arbas Avni
  • Biography

    Avni Arbas was born in Istanbul in 1919. He studied under Leopold Levy in the Paintings Department of the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts (currently known as Mimar Sinan University).
    He moved to Paris in 1946 and lived there until 1976.

    His works are in several international museums and institutions around the world, such as the Picasso Museum in Antibes and Fine Arts Gallery in Amman. He died in 2003.

    In his paintings, in the transformation of reality into an art image, the original link with the nature is not broken, and the themes of his works are still life and figurative paintings mastered with a blurry and staining painting style. He solidly maintained his practice of observations and visual experiences and bel...

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