Drawing Egypt: From the Artistic Legacy Collection at the American University in Cairo by Ronfard, Bruno

Drawing Egypt: From the Artistic Legacy Collection at the American University in Cairo (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789774165757)

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Drawing Egypt: From the Artistic Legacy Collection at the American University in Cairo by Ronfard, Bruno

Drawing Egypt: From the Artistic Legacy Collection at the American University in Cairo

$59.95
Drawing Egypt: From the Artistic Legacy Collection at the American University in Cairo by Ronfard, Bruno

Drawing Egypt: From the Artistic Legacy Collection at the American University in Cairo

$59.95
Format: Hardcover
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Born in 1907, Margo Veillon was one of Egypt's best-loved artists. Presented here is a sampling of her work spanning seventy-five years of her productive career, in a variety of graphic media--pen and ink, watercolor, pencil, and crayon, as represented in a legacy bequeathed to the American University in Cairo. Although she lived part of her life in Europe, it is clearly Egypt that held her imagination and inspired her artistic innovation. Possessed with an ability to capture the energy of a specific moment in time, Margo Veillon drew people and animals, landscapes and street scenes with her characteristic sly humor and gift for depicting a lively vignette or serene visual moment in just a few strokes. These threads and others no less individual and innovative make up the extraordinarily rich tapestry of Margo Veillon's artistic career, brought together in the AUC Permanent Collection.

Author: Bruno Ronfard
ISBN-10: 9774165756
ISBN-13: 9789774165757
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2013
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.60lbs
Size: 12.80h x 9.40w x 1.00d
By Bruno Ronfard
By Bruno Ronfard
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Margo Veillon was born in Cairo in 1907, the daughter of a Swiss businessman and his Austrian wife. She spent much of her artistic career capturing the verve and movement of daily life in Egypt. She died in 2003.


Bruno Ronfard lived in Cairo for a number of years and worked regularly with Margo Veillon on her collection from 1997 until her death. He is the editor of Margo Veillon: Witness of a Century (AUC Press, 2007).

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