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About The Artist: Raymond Abner

Raymond Abner was born in Cairo in 1919. He studied engineering between 1937 and 1939 but at the age of 20 he began to focus on art and began his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1941 and finished in 1943. He took lessons at the St. Martin's School of London, UK from 1945-1947, after which he moved to Paris, France to work with various studios. In Paris he met the grandson of Henri Matisse, who introduced him to his illustrious...