Samir Rafea

Painter

Samir Rafi was born in Cairo in 1924, he is one of the most prominent pioneers of surrealism in the 1940s.

He studies at the Faculty of Arts in 1948 and obtained a diploma from the Higher Institute of Art Education in 1950 then he traveled to Paris to do his Ph.D. in Art History at the Sorbonne University in 1954

in the early seventies, he decided that he won’t return to the Arab World after being arrested in Algeria for political reasons to preserve his freedom, but the issues of his country were never absent from his artistic imagination, he continued his career full of painting and sculpture.

He created his artistic achievement, which was characterized by diversity and the embodiment of the pure Egyptian situation, expressing the tragedy of alienation and homesickness to the extent that some critics described him as the “pioneer of popular surrealism” in Egypt.

Artworks

Artwork Title

Painting

Mixed Media on Paper

65 x 49 CM

25.6 x 19.3 Inch

Artwork Title

Painting

Mixed Media on Canvas

70 x 50 CM

27.6 x 19.7 Inch

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Painting

Mixed Media on Paper

60 x 44 CM

23.6 x 17.3 Inch

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Ink on paper

Drawing

28 x 36 CM

11 x 14.2 Inch

Artwork Title

Ink on paper

Drawing

28 x 36 CM

11 x 14.2 Inch

Artwork Title

Ink on paper

Drawing

28 x 36 CM

11 x 14.2 Inch

Artwork Title

Painting

Oil on Wood

64 x 52 CM

25.2 x 20.5 Inch

Artwork Title

Painting

Oil on Paper

32 x 50 CM

12.6 x 19.7 Inch

Artwork Title

Painting

Mixed Media on Paper

21 x 27 CM

8.3 x 10.6 Inch

Artwork Title

Painting

Mixed Media on wood

77 x 119 CM

30.3 x 46.9 Inch

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Painting

64 x 48 CM

25.2 x 18.9 Inch

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Painting

Mixed Media on Paper

29 x 41 CM

11.4 x 16.1 Inch

Artwork Title

Painting

Mixed Media on paper

29 x 41 CM

11.4 x 16.1 Inch

Artwork Title

Painting

Charcoal on cartoon

52 x 40 CM

20.5 x 15.7 Inch

Artwork Title

Mixed Media on paper

Drawing

20 x 30 CM

7.9 x 11.8 Inch

Artwork Title

Mixed Media on paper

Drawing

18 x 50 CM

7.1 x 19.7 Inch

Artwork Title

Mixed Media on paper

Drawing

18 x 50 CM

7.1 x 19.7 Inch

Artwork Title

Painting

Oil on Wood

55 x 80 CM

21.7 x 31.5 Inch

Artwork Title

Mixed Media on paper

Drawing

20 x 30 CM

7.9 x 11.8 Inch

Artwork Title

Pastel on paper

Painting

70 x 50 CM

27.6 x 19.7 Inch

Artwork Title

Pastel on paper

Painting

70 x 50 CM

27.6 x 19.7 Inch

Artwork Title

Pastel on paper

Painting

70 x 50 CM

27.6 x 19.7 Inch

Artwork Title

Pastel on paper

Painting

50 x 70 CM

19.7 x 27.6 Inch

Artwork Title

Pastel on paper

Painting

70 x 50 CM

27.6 x 19.7 Inch

Exhibitions

Past

8 October - 25 October 2024

Past

17 March - 18 April 2024

Past

19 October - 8 November 2023

Past

3 July - 16 August 2023

Past

3 July - 3 August 2016

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