Exhibition Of The Week Fahrelnissa Zeid

Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 (020-7887 8888, www.tate.org). Until 8 October

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 In recent years, Tate Modern has made a point of featuring overlooked, often female artists from outside “the usual European American art historical canon”, said Karen Wright in The Independent. The latest is the Turkish-born painter Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901-91), whose “long and eventful” career is now the subject of a show at the gallery. Born into Ottoman nobility, she married into the Iraqi royal family, and her husband was subsequently appointed as the country’s ambassador, first to Germany (where Zeid struck up a brief friendship with Hitler over their mutual love of painting) and then to Britain. Zeid’s glamorous lifestyle and “privileged financial position” did not stop her working, and her art was well received in Europe by critics. But in 1958 she narrowly avoided