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Margo Veillon

Margo Veillon (1907 - 2003) was active/lived in Egypt, Switzerland.  Margo Veillon is known for Street scenes and country landscape painting, abstraction, graphics, drawing.

ART NEWS: Tribute to Margo Veillon by Max Strasser, November 25, 2009

On Sunday 23 November, the American University in Cairo dedicated an art gallery to honor the memory of prominent artist Margo Vellion (1907-2003)

The Margo Veillon Gallery at the downtown campus of the American University in Cairo (AUC) showcases the work of an artist who lived in Egypt for almost the entire twentieth century. AUC Press, which has had a relationship with Veillon since 1960, built the Margo Veillon Gallery to share the collection that Veillon left to the publishing house when she died in 2003.

Veillon was born in Cairo in 1907 to a Swiss father and an Austrian mother. Aside from various travels around the world, she spent her whole life in Egypt. Veillon was known for her watercolor paintings that depict the life and landscape of the Egyptian countryside, and the gallery highlights a body of her more abstract work. The space is divided into two distinct halves: “Nocturnes”   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5616 characters.]  Artist bio

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