an award-winning international artist

suad al-attar is one of the most celebrated iraqi artists of her generation & the first woman to exhibit there solo.

Over 70 years of prolific production she has amassed a catalogue of more than 500 oil paintings, 200 watercolours, several etchings and countless pen drawings.

her work is held in public and private collections worldwide,
including the british museum, london & Mathaf museum of modern art, doha.

suad al-attar,
the book

This book brings together treasured drawings and paintings carefully selected from the artist's archive to form the most comprehensive published collection of her work and a rare document of her remarkable life.

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“in suad’s visions, one is caught in a moment of intensity, where reality may or may not lie at the other end of fantasy.”

— Jabra I. Jabra, Art Critic

(Detail 1/3) Eden Paradise, 1970, oil on board. 45 x 115 cm. Part of @ibrahimicollection 💛 #suadalattar #oilpainting #paintingdetail #gardenlove #palmtrees #yellow #fineart #contemporaryart
(Detail 2/3) Eden Paradise, 1970, oil on board. 45 x 115 cm. Part of @ibrahimicollection 💛 #suadalattar #oilpainting #paintingdetail #gardenlove #palmtrees #yellow #fineart #contemporaryart
(Detail 3/3) Eden Paradise, 1970, oil on board. 45 x 115 cm. Part of @ibrahimicollection 💛 #suadalattar #oilpainting #paintingdetail #gardenlove #palmtrees #yellow #fineart #contemporaryart
‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet…’ 🌹 Shakespeare’s famous lines, spoken by his Juliet, posit that a name is merely indexical, part of an arbitrary lexicon based on lin
Girl with Dove and Watermelon 🕊️🍉 (1991) + Girl in Moonlight🌜💙 (1991) Both of these small paintings (around A5 in size) are also up for sale at the upcoming @bonhams1793 auction on 24th May. #suadalattar #artauction #auction #art #painting #ara
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The question we get asked most is: are Suad’s works for sale? The answer is most often no - Suad no longer sells her paintings, in fact she hasn’t for a while now. However, from time to time a painting of hers may surface for sale at auct
‘Walking through Suad Al-Attar’s London apartment is like walking through the Hall of Mirrors, except unlike the long gallery at the Palace of Versailles, here it is the past that is reflected back through the numerous paintings that ador
One for the birds 🕊️ these beautiful creatures appear repeatedly throughout Suad’s oeuvre. They symbolise freedom, hope, new beginnings... For millennia, they have featured in literature and art irrespective of cultural boundaries, from the Sa
The best pleasure is to fly, to swim, to dive into the fire, to ride on the curled cloud… 🤍 - The Tempest, William Shakespeare Untitled, 1972, oil on canvas. 90 x 101 cm. #suadalattar #modernart #contemporaryart #abstract #fineart #painting
This is one of several works Suad was commissioned to create for Opera Holland Park in 1998. This particular painting represents the story of Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, which is an opera in one act - all takes place on Easter morning (S