(1930 – 2015)
Derrieh Fakhoury was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1930.
1946-1951 Studied painting at the Fine Arts Academy in Beirut.
in 1955, Fakhoury won a prize upon an exhibition organized by the Ministry of National Culture and Fine Arts in Beirut. Later, she was granted a scholarship to Italy to continue her studies in art at the “ Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma”. She also joined the Institute of Medal Art of Rome and she excelled in this area. Inspired by her visits to churches and museums in Italy, she also studied the art of wall painting (Fresco) at the Decorative Arts Institute in Rome.
In 1958, she returned from Rome and lived with her husband, the Syrian plastic artist Mahmoud Hammad, in Damascus where she produced works in various aspects of art with clear talent.
Derrieh Fakhoury stopped painting for several years. In the late ’80s she returned to practice drawing without showing her paintings in public and preferred to practice her art quietly away from social and artistic life.
Her impressionism work recorded themes inspired by the rural environment characterized by transparent colors and sincere emotions. The transparency of the colors and the softness of the lines in Fakhoury’s works reflect a feminine style. It is not only the spirit of the woman and the woman’s story that she is telling us about, but also the spirit of the naive woman who is as pure as the colors in her paintings.
Derrieh’s works are in public and private collections in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, and Japan.
Exhibitions
– 1955 Exhibition organized by the Ministry of National Culture and Fine Arts in Beirut, Lebanon
– 1957 6eme Salon de Peinture et de Sculpture (Autumn Exhibition). Palais de l’UNESCO. Beirut, Lebanon
– 1959 Spring Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Cairo, U.A.R.
– 1959 Autumn Exhibition at the National Museum in Damascus. Damascus, Syria
– 1960 Third Biennale of Alexandria. Museum of Fine Arts and Cultural Centre. Alexandria, U.A.R.
– 1963 Autumn Exhibition. Damascus, Syria
– 1975 Exhibition of Syrian Arab Women Artists at the Arab Cultural Centre in Damascus on the occasion of Women International Year. Damascus, Syria
– 1992 Seventh Foreign Artists Exhibition. Nagoya International Center. Nagoya, Japan
– 2019 Atassi Foundation. Personal Revolution. Women Artists from Syria. UAE, Dubai. 2019
Source: Family of the artist