# Fateh Moudarres artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Nationality: Syrian
- Movements: Syrian modern art movement, Surrealism, Realism, Figurative art
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture

## About Fateh Moudarres

Fateh Moudarres (1922–1999) was a Syrian painter, draughtsman, sculptor, poet, and novelist born in Aleppo. The British Museum identifies him as a leader of Syria’s modern art movement. His early practice included Realist and Surrealist approaches, and he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome from 1954 to 1960. After returning to Syria, he developed a personal visual language that combined surrealistic and figurative elements. Collectors and researchers may encounter his name in several transliterations, including Fateh al-Moudarres, Fateh Mudarres, and Mudarris, Fātiḥ al-; authority records connect these variants to the same artist. His importance within Syrian modernism, varied creative practice, and activity across painting, drawing, and sculpture make careful identity matching especially important when researching a work or comparing auction records.

## Common works and media

Paintings and drawings are the clearest work types documented by the institutional source, which classifies Moudarres as both a painter and draughtsman. Sculpture also formed part of his practice, although the supplied auction evidence does not establish how frequently sculptures reach the market. Works may be discussed in relation to early Realist or Surrealist approaches and a later, highly personal figurative language. The available sources do not establish recurring subjects, named series, ceramics, posters, or an editioned-print practice strongly enough to present them as common market categories.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by matching the work to Fateh Moudarres across his established Arabic and Latin-script name variants. The supplied institutional evidence supports distinctions among paintings, drawings, and sculpture, as well as between his early Realist and Surrealist phase and his later personal figurative practice. A documented date and medium can therefore help identify the most relevant comparison group. Public auction records may provide context when genuinely comparable works are available, but the supplied source pack does not include individual lot dimensions, condition, provenance, edition details, sale dates, or realized prices. No price trend or prediction should be inferred from this identity research alone.

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## Sources

- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG156098
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/280843075/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/156985586
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500124620
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1397989
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb144150700
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/fateh-moudarres/