In 1940, he traveled to Lebanon and studied English at the American University of Beirut. After graduating from the university, he returned to Aleppo, Syria, to work as an English teacher and an art teacher. In 1956 He traveled to complete his studies at the Royal Academy in Rome, after obtaining a scholarship, where he studied under Italian artist Gentilini. In 1972 he received his doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris.
He exhibited extensively during his career and published various books. In 1952, he participated in the Syrian Artists Exhibition in Damascus and won the first prize in painting. He won several prizes including the gold medal from the Italian Senate in 1962, the prize of honour at the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1963, the state award for fine arts in Damascus in 1986. Additionally, he wrote a three-part book on the history of art in 1954.
He passed away aged seventy-seven in 1999. After his death, he was awarded the Syrian Order of Merit.
Courtesy of the Ibrahimi Collection, Amman
Gazelles
Ink, gouache and gold paint
Untitled ( composition with a bird)
Watercolor and ink on brown paper
Untitled
Untitled
Executed in 1967
Untitled (composition in red)
Untitled (composition in red)
‘Technique of 1954- 1961’
Oil pastel and Gold
AT Aya
Untitled
Ma’aloula, number 1 Impression.
Sand and oil on paper
Fish
Watercolor and gold paint on paper
AT Aya
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Board
Untitled
Watercolour on paper
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Purple Landscape
Oil on wood
Landscape
Gouache and watercolor on paper
Landscape
Board
Landscape
Oil on Board
Untitled (Two Faces)
Oil on Board
AT Aya Incomplete
Untitled ( composition with two faces)
AT Aya Incomplete
Untitled
Oil on canvas
Badawiyatan (two Bedouins)
Oil on board
Untitled
Sand on Paper laid down on board
My Aunts Safia and Rahma
Oil on board
Untitled (Dervish with Tarbush and his son)
Charcoal and Gold on Paper
Untitled (Dervish with Tarbush and his daughter)
34 x 48 cm. - Color, sand and gold on paper
Untitled ( figure and beast)
Sand on Paper
Huwa Al Haq (he is the righteous)
Ink on Paper laid down on Board
Untitled – Melawiyeh (three dervishes)
Gouache and sand on paper
Untitled ( composition with a dervish)
Medium God leaf
Untitled (Man with Tarbush)
Gouache and watercolor on paper
Golgotha (Al Jaljala)
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Jesus
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Christ
Oil, sand and gold leaf on paper
Christ
Oil, sand and gold leaf on paper
Jesus
Oil on board
Wajeh al oum
Gouache and gold leaf on paper
AT Aya Incomplete
AT Aya Incomplete
Bedouin in White
My maternal aunts Safia and Rahma
Face
Color, sand and gold on paper
Untitled
Color, sand and gold on paper
Abstract Circle
Cardboard on wood
Aalo
Oil on wood
Untitled (Face)
Oil on Canvas
Nafidah ‘Ala Hadiqat Al Sir (Looking to the Secret Garden)
Oil on Canvas
Two girls and a fish
Oil on wood
Tadmuriyat (Palmyrians)
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
Min Tishreen 73 (From October/November 73)
Oil on Canvas
Muthanna wa thalath ( twice and trice)
Oil and sand collage
The Last Wolf
Oil on Canvas
Two Bedouins
Gouache on paper
Untitled (Mother and her two children)
Oil on Board
Oum Saghira wa ibnatuha – a young mother and her daughter
Oil on Canvas
Untitled
Oil on wood - On reverse: G20 G27 (numbers in Arabic) Amount: 2 (in Arabic) Telephone Number 662873 Mr. Munther Al Khair (all in Arabic)
My Daughter with her mom
Oil on board wood block
Untitled (composition with two faces)
Oil on Canvas
AT Aya
Oil on Canvas
Untitled (composition with three faces)
Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas
Untitled
Oil, Gold leaf and collage on Canvas
Untitled (eight faces)
Oil, gold leaf, and glass beads on canvas
Untitled ( Composition with four figures)
Oil on canvas - Signed and dated in Arabic and English (on reverse)
A queen from the sand
Sand and oil on wood
The black sun and birth
Sand and oil on board - Signed and dated (lower right along the headdress of the figure)
Ikounat al Jaddah Al Tayyibah ( the icons of the good grandmother)
Painted in 1996
Oil on canvas
Couple
Gouache on wallpaper - Signed Moudarres' and signed and dated in arabic (lower right)
Suha and Munzer, for each their Christ. - Signed ‘Moudarres’ and signed and dated in Arabic ( Lower right); Signed and Located ‘FATEH Moudarres SYRIA’ and signed and dated in Arabic ( on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
Untitled
1967
Gouache on wallpaper - Signed Moudarres' and signed and dated in arabic (lower right)
Untitled
1980
Oil on board - Signed in arabic (lower right)
Untitled
1980
Oil on board - Signed in arabic (lower right)
La Ukallimu Ahadan Sab'ata Ayyam (I shall not speak to anyone for seven days)
Oil on canvas - Signed Moudarres 1975' and signed in arabic (lower right)
Badawiyatan (Two Bedouins)
1980
Oil on canvas - Signed 'Moudarres' and in arabic (lower right)
Fallabat Min Al Qalamoun (Peasants from Dalamoun Mountains)
1980
Oil on canvas - Signed and dated "Moudarres 1980' and signed in arabic (lower right); Signed, dated and located 'F. Moudarres SYRIA 1980' and signed twice and inscribed in arabic (on the reverse)
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