IBRAMLASSAWCAMEFROMEGYPT TO NEWYORK AS A CHILD. He studied at the Clay Club from 1926 to 1930, and at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design in New York in 1930 and 1931. Yet he was haunted by the work of Jacques Villon, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Wassily Kandinsky that he saw in an exhibition of Katherine Dreier’s famed Societé Anonyme collection at the Brooklyn Museum in the winter of 1926-27…