Untitled
Description
Executed in: c. 1952 - 1956
Medium: Oil on board panel
Size: 123.5 x 99 cm (with frame 137 x 111 cm)
Signed on the front lower left "G. Cyr".
Provenance
Private Collection, Lebanon.
Location
Beirut, Lebanon
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Description
George Cyr is a French artist, (1880 - 1964). Early in his artistic career, while on a tour in the Middle-East, he decided to settle in Beirut, where he frequented artists such as Shafiq Abboud, Omar Onsi and Moustapha Farroukh. Having spent half of his artistic life in Lebanon, he became regarded as part of the Lebanese modern art movement, and was even awarded the Lebanese National Order of the Cedar. Over the course of the artist’s life, one can see an oscillation between cubist oil paintings and watercolor still-lifes, portraits, landscapes and nudes. His wavering is said to be symptomatic of having been influenced by two cultures - of Paris and Beirut.
A breathtaking piece by Cyr, this cubist painting emits a warmth that can rarely be found in Paris. Patches of green, sometimes slightly angled inwards, are reminiscent of agricultural terracing, commonly seen in the hilly rural areas of Lebanon. A figure stands in the lower center, wearing gray and black clothes, a white waist-belt and a black head-dress, walking away from the viewer, into a field of colors, under a bright ray of sun. It seems that although Cyr has gone cubist in this piece, he has not fully abandoned the landscape, subtly injecting Realism into Abstraction.
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