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Salah Abdel Kerim"Meridian Hotel Mural" Watercolor on Paper 20" x 22" inch by Salah Abdel Kerim circa 1980
circa 1980

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"Meridian Hotel Mural" Watercolor on Paper 20" x 22" inch by Salah Abdel Kerim
Born in Fayoum to a big family of 5 brothers and sisters. In 1938 he meets the famous painter Hussein Bikar and he becomes his student in the Faculty of Arts in Qena. He remained much attached to his professor all through his life. In 1940 he meets Hussein Youssef Amin and the Group of Contemporary Art at the secondary school of Farouk First in Abasya district in Cairo when he was introduced to surrealism for the first time. In 1943 he becomes a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts and graduates with excellence and honors in 1947. In 1948 he becomes an assistant to the interior decoration section at the FFA. He is then sent to a mission in Paris in 1952 and he becomes a student to Paul Colin and A.Marie Cassandre for publicity and theatre design. He then moves to Rome in 1956 to study cinema design. In 1957 he received the international prize in painting from San Vito Romano, Italy, and obtains his Ph.D. from Centro Sperimental di Cinemato Grafia. Back in Egypt in 1958, he is appointed professor at the FFA where he started experimenting with his masterpieces sculptures in wrote iron. In 1959 he receives the first prize for sculpture at the Biennale of Alexandria. In the same year, he receives from the Biennale of Saint Paolo, Brazil honorary merit for his sculpture "The Fish". In 1960 he receives the award of the Guggenheim National section for his painting "Fighting Roosters". In 1961, Rene Huyghe included his sculpture "Cry of the Beast" in his book "Art and Man" together with the great P.Picasso and Muller under the title of "The energy of Form". In 1963, he receives the same sculpture honorary merit for the same sculpture from the 7th Biennale of San Paolo.
- Creator:Salah Abdel Kerim (1925 - 1988)
- Creation Year:circa 1980
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Culver City, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1085112413822
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