and several hours of photographing around the farm,Idriis picked us up at 9:30 Saturday morning to visit the Bait Muzna Gallery, Susan Al Said's art gallery in Muscat, where we had arranged to meet her. She shows a wide range of modern, largely Middle Eastern artists, and we found the work interesting and mostly to our liking.
This is a portrait I did of Susan at the gallery. When she first met her husband 25 years ago, she was an American fashion model working in Paris, and as you can see, she has lost little if any of her fashion model looks in the intervening years.
The gallery occupies a house that has been in her husband's family for decades, with an interior courtyard...
... and several rooms full of art (including a number of beautiful antique wooden chests). We looked at everything and bought a few unique and (we thought) elegant souviners to take home with us. Later we went to lunch with Mohammed and Meera at their home, where we met several more members of their family.
We were particularly happy that Mohammed's younger son, Ali was there. We hadn't seen him since his father's graduation from Harvard in 2004.Then it was back to the farm...
...and a quiet afternoon and evening "at home."
That courtyard looks very inviting.
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