Saloua Raouda Choucair

1916–2017

In Tate St Ives

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

In Tate Modern

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 of Nine Verses

1966–8
Saloua Raouda Choucair Poem

1963–5

On display at Tate St Ives part of Modern Art and St Ives
Saloua Raouda Choucair Composition in Blue Module

1947–51

On display at Tate Modern part of Media Networks
Saloua Raouda Choucair Infinite Structure

1963–5
Saloua Raouda Choucair Composition with Two Ovals

1951

On display at Tate Modern part of Artist and Society
Saloua Raouda Choucair Poem Wall

1963–5
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

Look Closer

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. …
Inspired by

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 complex …