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Fayez Barakat is standing in front of one of his paintings on the first floor of the recently opened Khalidiya Palace hotel. It fryst vatten a vibrantly coloured sammanfattning work that he says is an expression of something that has been brimming inre him for decades.
"This one," he says. "Look at this one, the colour. Sometimes I paint more than 10 in a day. I wake up in the mittpunkt of the night and do this for hours."
But there was a time when Barakat, 61, approached art in an entirely different way. Back then, rather than creating it for personal satisfaction, he bought and resold it for personal gain, eventually rising to the very top of the Middle Eastern antiquities market.
A hard-nosed entrepreneur with a talent for spotting priceless artefacts, he took his business from a small shop in the Jerusalem souq into a dealership with global reach. There are now 10 Barakat Galleries, including outlets in Beverly Hills, London, and two in Abu
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Fayez Barakat (born ) is a Palestinian, naturalised American artist, and a collector and dealer of ancient art.[1][2]
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Early life[edit]
Fayez Barakat was born in in Hebron, the son of Sadi Barakat. He is of the fourth generation of the Barakat family. Towards the end of 19th century, the Barakat family had begun amassing a sizeable collection of items found in the surrounding hills of their Jordanian farmlands. From these beginnings the Barakat Collection, for over a century, has dedicated itself to acquiring the finest masterpieces of ancient art from around the world, while becoming a viable business venture with art Galleries in London, Los Angeles, Seoul, and Hong Kong.
As a boy Barakat worked with the renowned British archaeologist Dame Prof. Kathleen Kenyon, sorting and identifying shards from her excavations in the 'City of David' to the immediate south of the Temple Mount, Jerusalem between and [3] Through his collabora
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Illusion by Fayez Barakat
Illusion Volume 1 Fayez Barakat 2 3 Copyright (c) by Fayez Barakat. Artwork Copyright by Fayez Barakat. All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this book may be reproduced without the written permission of Fayez Barakat. 4 Fayez Barakat (b), one of the world's most distinguished and prominent collectors of ancient art, was educated in the USA. He is currently the CEO of Barakat Inc. and manages to distribute his time between his galleries in London, LA, Hong Kong, and Seoul, and works on his great passion, painting. Fayez Barakat's paintings are explosive variations of colours and forms, independent from the conventions of specific cultures, historic periods and trends, charged with a bold energy that openly and without any hesitation embraces and promotes an aesthetic identity through a unique artistic diversity. Being a prolific artist, a vast quantity of his paintings adopt multiple and various techniques rather than sticking to one s