Fahrelnissa Zeid, the most expensive Turkish painter, is commemorated with a book and an exhibition in Istanbul, Turkey
Visitors to the Bozlu Art Project in Istanbul’s Sisli district will rediscover Fahrelnissa Zeid’s massive abstracts as well as portraits featured under the title"Towards a Storm"
Zeid was born in Istanbul in January 1901 to a family of artists and intellectuals. She enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts for Women in 1919, and got married a year later to novelist Izzet Melih Devrim. One of their children died at a young age because of scarlet fever, but Nejad Devrim would become a painter while Shirin Devrim would become an actress.Zeid studied painting in Paris in 1928 and returned to Istanbul in 1929, leaving behind her figurative works for expressionist figurativism.
Zeid has started a workshop in Paris in the following years, and her name is mentioned alongside the School of Paris painters, exhibiting in the most important museums and galleries.
He guffaws, and says “If we had that visitors’ book today I would have put it in my book [about Fahrelnissa Zeid]. The people who were so negative towards Zeid in 1964 surely would be embarrassed today. Their lack of foresight would be evident.”
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