Simone Fattal (Arabic: سيمون فتال ; born 1942) is a Lebanese-American artist.
She was born in Damascus and was educated in Beirut and Paris, studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. She returned to Beirut in 1969, where she began a career as a painter.[1] She began working in clay at The Art Institute of California, later working in Grasse with ceramic artist Hans Spinner.[2]
She lived with poet and artist Etel Adnan, until Adnan's death in November 2021. The couple left Lebanon for Sausalito, California in 1980. There Fattal established a publishing house Post-Apollo Press. She returned to the visual arts in 1988, producing sculpture, watercolors, paintings and collage.[1] She later moved to Paris.[3]
In 2017, she was nominated for a AWARE prize for women artists.[2]
^"Simone Fattal: Finding a Way". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
Further readingedit
Katrib, Ruba (2019). Simone Fattal: Works and Days. Long Island City: MoMA PS1. ISBN978-0-9968930-7-7.
Obrist, Hans Ulrich (2017). Simone Fattal: Watercolours. London: HENI. ISBN978-1-912122-00-4.
April 12, 2024
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