Fahrelnissa Zeid, London, UK

The UK’s first retrospective of Fahrelnissa Zeid, a pioneering artist known for her large-scale colourful canvases, is on now at the Tate Modern. Zeid’s work – some of it five metres wide – fuses European approaches to abstract art with Byzantine, Islamic and Persian influences. This exhibition will bring together paintings, drawings and sculptures spanning over 40 years. Zeid received formal training in Istanbul, one of the first women to do so, and continued her training in Paris in the 1920s. She came to note in the early 1940s, painting and exhibiting with the avant-garde d Group in Turkey. Highlights of the exhibition include Third-class Passengers 1943, Three Ways of Living (War) 1943 and Three Moments in a Day and a Life 1944. Other works are from her time in London, where she moved with her husband Prince Zeid El-Hussein of Iraq’s Hashemite royal family, in 1945 – Fight against Abstraction 1947, and Resolved Problems 1948.

The Fahrelnissa Zeid exhibition will run until 8 October, 2017. tate.org.uk