The Sunflowers 2002
A tangle of light and shadow creates dozens of shades of green which animate and give form to the three Sunflowers - each in their respective stages.
Graduating from the Falculty of Fine Arts in 1963, this 2002 oil benchmarks Zahran’s career that spanned over four decades.
Dr. Magdi Youssef’s article, Illumination and Verdancy, explores how Zahran’s life on the farm influenced his artistic production, including the use of a “thousand shades of green”: