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Simone Fattal

Simone Fattal (Arabic: سيمون فتال; born 1942) is a Syrian-American artist.

She was born in Damascus, Syria and was later educated in Beirut and Paris, studying philosophy at the École des Lettres and the Sorbonne, as well as archaeology at the École du Louvre.^[1] She returned to Beirut in 1969, where she began a career as a painter.^[2] She began working in clay at The Art Institute of California, later working in Grasse with ceramic artist Hans Spinner.^[3]

She lived with poet and artist Etel Adnan, until Adnan's death in November 2021. The couple left Lebanon for Sausalito, California in 1980. There, Fattal established a publishing house Post-Apollo Press. She returned to the visual arts in 1988, producing sculpture, watercolors, paintings and collage.^[2] The couple later moved to Paris.^[4]

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