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Three stone works by Ms. Choucair: from left, "Movement of the Angle"; "Infinite Module"; and "Infinite Structure."
David Smith; thumbnail, Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation
Saloua Raouda Choucair
Died on January 26, 2017 at age 100
A Lebanese artist, Ms. Choucair was one of the first abstractionists in the Arab world. Her sense of line and form, derived from Islamic art, gave modernism a new idiom.
Notable Deaths 2017
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