SFEIR-SEMLER GALLERY
key figure in the postwar history of Lebanese art, Aref El Rayess traversed (1965–67), followed shortly thereafter by his expressionistic works, such as (1968) that responded to major historical events of the time. After his drawings depicting the Lebanese civil war were censored in 1975, the artist relocated to Jeddah where his landscape abstractions of deserts took on mystical surreal forms and colors.
