Siyahlı Kadın / Woman in Black
Avni Arbaş was born in Istanbul in 1919. After graduating from Galatasaray High School he attended the Academy of Fine Arts between 1940-46, where he studied under Leopold Levy (1882-1966). During this period he became one of the founders of the New Painters Group. In 1947 he was awarded a scholarship from the French government to study in Paris, where he remained for thirty years and participated in numerous exhibitions.…