Fateh MOUDARRES, (Syrie,1922–1999)

Untitled Oil on cardboard 45 x 35.8 cm signed in Arabic and Latin in the lower right corner "Moudarres Following a marked interest in surrealism and a momentary departure towards abstraction at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome from 1954 to 1960, Moudarres turned to ancient sculpture and low relief to model the protagonists of his paintings. With the hollow eyes of Sumerian figures, the angular headdresses of Assyrian rulers, and the visible contours of Byzantine icons, his figures embody the continuum of a culture shaped over millennia. He further emphasized this connection by attaching his subjects to their environment through tactile brushwork and unified color schemes inspired by the red earth landscapes of his ancestral village outside Aleppo. In his youth, the natural environment of his village proved to be a place of comfort and discovery, a true source of inspiration.