Gazbia Sirry

A graduate of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts for Women Teachers in Cairo, Gazbia Sirry continued her studies in Paris and London under Marcel Gromaire. Returning to Egypt in the 1950s, she joined the Group of Modern Art, producing defiant social realist depictions of Egyptian women.

Canvases like The Swing and The Metamorphosis cemented her reputation as one of the Arab world's foremost visual artists, represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.