
Several of her works are held in the British Museum collection and a major public work stands outside Paris's Institut Du Monde Arabe. The influential sculptor Mona Saudi, who made mainly abstract works from stone, has died, aged 76; her death was confirmed by her gallery, Lawrie Shabibi in Dubai. Saudi was born in Amman, Jordan in 1945, moving first to Beirut and later to Paris where she studied sculpture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.