Ammar’s Fi Rehab El Set goes on display in Art Dubai

Fi Rehab El Set, a painting by Egyptian modernist Mamdouh Ammar (1928-2012), will be on display at this year’s Art Dubai art fair. Harper’s Bazaar Arabia says the piece, exhibited by ArtTalks Egypt from Cairo, “was painted in 1952, the year of both the 23 July Revolution and Ammar’s graduation from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo. He then joined the Contemporary Art Group, and became a key figure in the development of a politically engaged Egyptian Folk Realism movement, felt in the Socialist Realist style and subject matter of this oil on canvas.” Art Dubai 2017 runs from 15 to 18 March.