{"product_id":"wassef-boutros-ghali","title":"Wassef Boutros-Ghali","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first complete catalogue raisonné of the Egyptian artist featuring paintings and works on paper from the 1930s to his last works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first comprehensive book dedicated to Egyptian artist Wassef Boutros-Ghali, offering an in-depth exploration of his storied life, the works produced across his distinct creative phases, and his enduring artistic legacy. Spanning Cairo, Paris, and New York, Boutros-Ghali's life and practice were shaped by cultural hybridity and political turbulence. Working privately and exhibiting selectively, he left behind a body of work that until now has remained largely unexamined. This catalogue brings coherence to that dispersed legacy, presenting a definitive timeline of his artistic evolution. \u003cbr\u003eWassef Boutros-Ghali (1924-2023) was a visionary Egyptian painter and architect whose late-blooming artistic career spanned decades and continents. Though initially steered toward architecture, Boutros-Ghali painted throughout his life, cultivating a distinctive visual language shaped by an affluent and cultured upbringing, political upheaval, religion and mythology, and a life lived across multiple countries.\u003cbr\u003eRooted in abstraction, his paintings fuse vibrant color fields with architectural precision, informed by modernist movements in both art and design. His bold, geometric compositions reflect a lifelong pursuit of harmony—what he described as a \"visual equilibrium of geometric shapes and colors.\"\u003cbr\u003eAs his art evolved, Boutros-Ghali deepened his exploration of color, energy, and form, producing expressive, lyrical works until the end of his life.","brand":"Skira Editore S.p.A","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44021067513892,"sku":"9788857253664","price":395.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9788857253664.jpg?v=1778210571","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/wassef-boutros-ghali","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}