Maher Raief (Egypt 1926-1999) Surrealist Vignette’S I Mixed Media On Pa
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- Property from a distinguished private collection, Alexandria Formerly in the private collection of Farouk Shehata, Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria, and Egyptian cultural attaché in Vienna
- The present set of delightful surrealist vignettes are an extremely rare appearance of works by the renowned surrealist painter Maher Raief
- Maher Raief was an active member of the Contemporary Art Group with his fellow group members, Hamed Nada and Samir Rafi, the group aimed to Express a distinctly Egyptian identity, from the yoke of colonial influence
- In 1952 he takes part in the Venice Biennale where he gains notable recognition
- Maher Raief was born in Cairo in 1926 and died in the United States in 1999
- He graduated from the Cairo Faculty of Fine Arts in 1950
- In 1954 he got a BA in Philosophy from Cairo University
- In 1960 he got a Diploma in Graphics from Dusseldorf and in 1975 he obtained his PH.D.in Graphics , Aesthetics and Art History from Cologne University in Germany
- Appointed teacher in Cairo Faculty of Fine Arts in 1951
- In 1960 he moved to Alexandria Faculty of Fine Arts and became the head of the Graphics department in 1975
- He continued as a Professor of Graphics in the same Faculty until his death
- He exhibited his works in Germany , Alexandria Biennale , Lausanne Graphics biennale
- He participated in exhibitions in Stockholm , Lausanne , Tokyo , Moscow , Sao Paolo , Venice and Rome
- He won the Lausanne Biennale prize in 1964
- In the mid forties he was an active member of the Contemporary Art Group which was established by Hussein Youssef Amin and comprised El Gazzar and Hamed Nada among others
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