El Gazzar: The Complete Works

El-Gazzar, born in 1925 in Alexandria, was a leading figure in modern Egyptian art of the 20^th century. He enrolled at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1944 and then joined the Contemporary Art Group founded by Hussein Youssef Amin, his mentor. With an innovative and unique expressionist style, he depicted the people of Cairo in a folkloric way. Later, he moved on to abstraction, representing industrial machines and their effects on humans.
Recognized during his lifetime, El-Gazzar's works were exhibited in France in 1949, at the Venice Biennale in 1952 and at the São Paulo Museum in 1953. Today, his works are in private collections in Cairo, Alexandria, Rome, Paris and Brussels, and also in major institutions around the world, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York or the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.
This catalogue raisonné published in English includes two volumes. The first is devoted to the artist's paintings and the second to graphic works, archives and photographs. It provides an understanding not only of the artist's enigmatic work, but also of modern Egyptian art in general.

Authors: Valérie Didier, Hussam Rashwan
Format: 230 x 305 mm
Number of pages: 624 pages in two volumes presented in a box (vol.1 paintings and vol.2 drawings)
Number of illustrations: approximately 800
Binding: Cardboard binding
Language : English
ISBN: 9782376660637
Publication: December 1, 2023