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Description
Executed in: c. 1980
Medium: oil pastel on Canson paper
Size: 25 x 31.5 cm (49 x 55.5 cm with frame)
Provenance
Private collection, Lebanon. Acquired directly from the artist
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Location
Lebanon
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Description
Farid Aouad (b. 1924 - d. 1982) was perhaps the most Parisian Lebanese artist. He spent most of his life in the French capital, where he painted and drew scenes of daily life, including people walking in the streets, theatres and cafés. Aouad, born in South Lebanon, was, in 1943, part of the first promotion at the School of Painting (the present School of Visual Arts) at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (Alba).
In the late 1940s, he travelled to Paris, where he spent two years at the Beaux-Arts and worked in the studios of fauvist artist Othon Friesz and cubist painter and writer André Lhote. He returned to Lebanon before settling definitively in Paris in 1959. His path became associated with an image of sickness and misery. In his Dictionary of Lebanese Painting, Michel Fani writes that “the man who coughed and spat blood in his atelier rue des Haies was not a doomed artist. Though he painted the memories of a world where colour was not anymore, like a blind staggering in the dark.”
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