Fouad Kamel (Egyptian, 1919-1999)
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Exhibited : Venice, XXXIVth International Biennale, 1968 (label on reverse).
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Notes : PROPERTY FROM AN EGYPTIAN PRIVATE COLLECTIONThis lot offered for sale is subject to a 5% import duty on the importation value levied at the time of collection/shipment within the UAE.One of Egypt's first and most important lyrical abstract painters, Fouad Kamel was part of the Art and Freedom group, whose other members included Ramses Younan and Samir Rafi'. Originally coming from a surrealist background, Younan and Kamel went on to pioneer Egyptian abstract art. Whilst Younan used strange colours and jagged forms to create curiously distorted abstract compositions, in Fouad Kamel's more fluid compositions, the broad gestural strokes demonstrate the free movement of the artist's hand, an expression of his rebellion against the establishment and the traditional artistic forms. His abstract work went through three phases- black, blue and red. His thick colours and dramatic curvilinear lines mark a dramatic depature from previous schools of painting in Egypt- the visual expression of his revolutionary leanings.
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