This artist book compiles unknown and little-known works of Fahrelnissa Zeid. She is one of the pioneering artists of Turkish modernism in the 1940’s and of the post-war France avant-garde. Daughter of Kabaagaçli Sakir Pasha, niece of Grand Vizier Cevat Pasha, and sister of painter Aliye Berger and writer Cevat Sakir Kabaagaçli, a.k.a Halikarnas Balikçisi, Fahru¨nissa Zeid took her surname from Emir Zeid, the brother of Iraqi King Faysal I; she changed the spelling of her name to Fahrelnissa in France. She is the first woman artist exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. She joined the “d Grup” in 1942 in Istanbul, a time she already started to create her unique, extraordinary path. She focused on abstract painting; she became celebrated for her monumental and dynamic abstract compositions that engulf the viewer in fields of color, light, and energetic movement, intertwining cosmic and inner universes. Later in her life, she painted portraits of her family and friends. In 1975, she moved to Amman where she founded Fahrelnissa Zeid Institute of Fine Arts A Fahrelnissa Zeid Retrospective was held in 2017 at the Tate Modern, London and travelled to Deutsche Bank Kuntshalle, Berlin in 2018. http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/fahrelnissa-zeid https://www.deutsche-bank-kunsthalle.de/kunsthalle/en/exhibitions/ current-exhibition.html