Portrait of Jeanne Engalytcheff-Badaro

About the artist:
Badaro (1913–1968) was born in Egypt, schooled in Switzerland and returned to live most of her adult life in Alexandria where she established a studio at L’atelier d’Alexandrie. She painted landscapes, portraits, scenes of sailors, bars, and soldiers in cabarets (during the war years), some of which today can be found in Egyptian museums of modern art. the quintessential Alexandrian, she was the inspiration behind the character of ‘Clea’ in Laurence Durell’s the Alexandria Quartet.

For more, see the photo gallery of Egyptian modern art from Rawi magazine's Issue 8 available online (link in details).