Defiant Iranian Painter Abelina Galustian

"The Whole Story" Oil on 16 Canvases. Kimberly Brooks.

Abelina Galustian, Photographs of confiscated paintings from "The Veil Series," oil and acrylic on canvas, 2003

Left: Jean-Leon Gerome, The Slave Market, 1867, oil on canvas. Right: Abelina Galustian, The Slave Market: Womansword 2000, oil and acrylic on canvas.

Left: Stanislas von Chlebowski. Purchasing a slave, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1879 (36.75 x 28.50 in). Right: Abelina Galustian Purchasing a slave: The Womansword, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2002 (5 x 6 ft).

A close-up detail from Galustian's Purchasing a slave: The Womansword, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2002

Artist Abelina Galustian

First Person Artist: Defiant Iranian Painter Abelina Galustian

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