Saloua Raouda Choucair

1916–2017

Saloua Raouda Choucair, ‘Poem’ 1963–5
Poem 1963–5
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In Tate St Ives

Modern Art and St Ives: Construction in painting and sculpture after 1950

In Tate Modern

Artist and Society: A view from São Paulo: Abstraction and Society

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Biography

Saloua Raouda Choucair (Arabic: سلوى روضة شقير‎; June 24, 1916 – January 26, 2017) was a Lebanese painter and sculptor. She is said to have been the first abstract artist in Lebanon, though she sold nothing there until 1962.

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Artworks

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Saloua Raouda Choucair, ‘Poem’ 1963–5

Saloua Raouda Choucair Poem

1963–5
On display at Tate St Ives part of Modern Art and St Ives
Saloua Raouda Choucair, ‘Poem of Nine Verses’ 1966–8

Saloua Raouda Choucair Poem of Nine Verses

1966–8
Saloua Raouda Choucair, ‘Infinite Structure’ 1963–5

Saloua Raouda Choucair Infinite Structure

1963–5
Saloua Raouda Choucair, ‘Composition in Blue Module’ 1947–51

Saloua Raouda Choucair Composition in Blue Module

1947–51
Saloua Raouda Choucair, ‘Poem Wall’ 1963–5

Saloua Raouda Choucair Poem Wall

1963–5
Saloua Raouda Choucair, ‘Composition with Two Ovals’ 1951

Saloua Raouda Choucair Composition with Two Ovals

1951
On display at Tate Modern part of Artist and Society
Saloua Raouda Choucair, ‘The Screw’ 1975–7

Saloua Raouda Choucair The Screw

1975–7
On display at Tate Liverpool part of Ideas Depot

Film and audio

Conserving the work of Choucair

Our team go to Beirut to help preserve paintings damaged by electricity curfews and changing temperatures

Saloua Raouda Choucair: From Beirut to Tate Modern

The Lebanese artist is famous in Lebanon for bringing abstraction to the Middle East

Features

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The life and work of Saloua Raouda Choucair

Saloua Raouda Choucair, born in 1916, pioneered abstract art in the Middle East with her paintings, textiles and interlocking sculptures ...

Archive image of Choucair in her studio
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Why Choucair astonishes me

Sophie Partarrieu

The paintings, sculptures and jewellery in Tate Modern's Saloua Raouda Choucair show are just a fraction of what the ...

TATE ETC. issue 28
Tate Etc

Tate Etc. issue 28: Summer 2013

Tate Etc. issue 28, Summer 2013; online edition of Tate's magazine

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