CAIRO: The Cultural Development Fund has just finished preparing the museum of late artist Engy Aflaton's work at the Prince Taz Palace, which will be opening during the next few days. The museum includes 88 paintings of Aflaton's distinctive art and also includes a special collection of her personal possessions. Mohamed Abu Saada, the head of the central department for the Cultural Development Fund, said the museum came as a part of the Fund's role to highlight the work of great Egyptian artists. He also said the Fund aims to open more museums of this kind in the coming period. Engy Aflaton was born in 1924 in Shubra in Cairo and had an aristocratic background. Her artwork explored the lives of working women and oppressed wives. Her work had political motivations and yet managed to contribute a great deal to the realist movement in Egypt. Aflaton died in April 1989 after a life in which she left her privileged background to pursue an artistic life depicting the lives of the populace.
