Fayez Barakat is internationally recognised as one of the foremost dealers and collectors of ancient art, whose connoisseurship and scholarship have shaped significant private and public collections worldwide. Alongside this distinguished career, a parallel practice has come increasingly into focus: that of a prolific and highly accomplished painter. Over recent years, Barakat has developed a distinctive and allusive body of work, one that draws on deep historical knowledge while asserting a contemporary, intuitive painterly language.