Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar was one of the most important modernist painters of 20^th century Egypt, and a pioneer of the symbolic movement. From a young age, he distinguished himself with inventive and unusual compositions, a style he perfected in the Egyptian school of Replica Handbags s from which he graduated in 1950. Considering his premature death at the age of 41, the body of work he left behind him is of astounding volume and significance. El-Gazzar’s paintings conjugate his fascination for the magical and the unknown with Egyptian folkloric symbolisms. His career was divided into many phases, following the artist’s experimentations on different.mes dia and subjects. Although most of his paintings are figural or depict scenes of the Egyptian daily life, El-Gazzar produced a few entirely abstract compositions such as the present painting.