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Gazbia Sirry (1925 - 2021) - Egypt (Cairo)
Gazbia Sirry (Arabic: جاذبية سري) (11 October 1925 – 10 November 2021) was an Egyptian painter. Born in Cairo, Gazbia Sirry studied fine arts at the Higher Institute of Art Education for Women Teachers in 1950 (currently known as the Faculty of Art Education at Helwan University), where her dissertation traced Egypt's political history. She later b...... |
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Inji Efflatoun (1924 - 1989) - Egypt (Cairo)
Inji Aflatoun (Arabic: إنجي أفلاطون 16 April 1924 – 17 April 1989) was an Egyptian painter and activist in the women's movement. She was a 'leading spokeswoman for the Marxist-progressive-nationalist-feminist movement in the late 1940s and 1950s', as well as a 'pioneer of modern Egyptian art' and 'one of the important Egyptian visual artists'. Afla...... |
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Laurent Marcel Salinas (1913 - 2010) - Egypt (Alexandria)
Laurent Marcel Salinas was an Egyptian-born French artist born in Alexandria in 1913 of a French mother and an Italian father. He received an education befitting a member of the cosmopolitan Alexandrian elite of which he was a member, traveling extensively and studying law. However, his real passion was painting. He was a member of the Art et Liber...... |
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Ramses Younan (1913 - 1966) - Egypt (Minya)
Ramses Younan was an Egyptian painter and writer, born into a poor Coptic-Christian family in Minya, Egypt. He is most known for his work with the Art and Liberty Group, a surrealist collective in Cairo. Younan's work is characterized by his interest in form and space and his aversion to certain aspects of surrealism. He was a regular participant i...... |
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Jean Agélou (1878 - 1921) - Egypt (Alexandria)
Jean Agélou (16 October 1878 – 2 August 1921[citation needed]) was a French photographer of the 1910s and 1920s, best known for his erotic and nude photographs made at the beginning of the 20th century. Agélou was born in Alexandria, Egypt,[citation needed] in October 1878. Christian Bourdon and Jean-Pierre Bourgeron, major collectors of postcards,...... |
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Ibram Lassaw (1913 - 2004) - Egypt (Alexandria)
Ibram Lassaw was a Russian-American sculptor, known for nonobjective construction in brazed metals. Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the Beaux-Arts In...... |
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