Saloua Raouda Choucair
1916–2017
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In Tate Liverpool
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In Tate Modern
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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Saloua Raouda Choucair Poem
1963–5
Saloua Raouda Choucair Infinite Structure
1963–5
Saloua Raouda Choucair Poem of Nine Verses
1966–8
Saloua Raouda Choucair Composition in Blue Module
1947–51
Saloua Raouda Choucair Poem Wall
1963–5
Saloua Raouda Choucair Composition with Two Ovals
1951
Saloua Raouda Choucair The Screw
1975–7
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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Why Choucair astonishes me
The paintings, sculptures and jewellery in Tate Modern's Saloua Raouda Choucair show are just a fraction of what the ...
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Hala Choucair: the painting that took my father's hit
Saloua Raouda Choucair and her family lived through the Lebanese Civil War - and it literally left its mark on her ...
Tate Etc
Tate Etc. issue 28: Summer 2013
Tate Etc. issue 28, Summer 2013; online edition of Tate's magazine
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Saloua Raouda Choucair: Conversations with Choucair’s daughter, Hala
Hi, my name is Sophie and I’m currently a curatorial intern at Tate Modern and an MA in Curating ...
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Work of the week: Paris-Beirut by Saloua Raouda Choucair
Curator Ann Coxon reveals an intriguing story behind this painting titled Paris-Beirut by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair born in ...
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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 ...
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