Khaled BEN SLIMANE (1951) Set of 3 vases, painted ceramic 33.5, 23.5 and 18 cm. Note: Khaled Ben Slimane graduated as a ceramist from the Institut Technologique d'Art, d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme in Tunis in 1977, then studied at the Escuela Massana in Barcelona before returning to Tunisia in 1979. Khaled Ben Slimane travelled to India, Iran and Pakistan between 1975 and 1976, and lived in Tokyo from 1982 to 1983, where he collaborated with Japanese ceramists. In his work, Khaled Ben Slimane blends Islamic art with a form of Westernised beauty.