Old Door (1968)
Description
Size: 69 x 89 cm; 27 x 35 in
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed on the front lower left. Written 2nd study on the reverse.
Provenance
Private Collection, Lebanon. Acquired by the present owner from Galerie Argile, London, in the late 80s. The artwork had been in the collection of Nabil Hamad from Galerie Argile. Acquired directly from the artist.
Location
Beirut, Lebanon
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Born in the mountainous town of Ehden, North Lebanon, Saliba Douaihy (1915-1994) was a Lebanese painter. Trained with Habib Srour, he obtained a grant to study at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris. In 1939, he was one of the artists selected to produce large-scale paintings based on ancient history for the Pavilion of Lebanon at New York World’s Fair.
Saliba Douaihy, who settled in the United States from 1950 to 1975 is considered a pioneer in the establishment of Lebanese Modern Painting. He is perhaps the only artist of this country whose corpus displays in such a clear manner an evolution from the so-called Impressionist style of the previous generation (Omar Onsi, Moustafa Farroukh and Cesar Gemayel) to radical abstraction.
Executed in 1968, this painting depicts a traditional mud house typical of rural areas in the Bekaa Valley. Douaihy integrated precise details such as the jars, the vine, the texture of the walls and the arid landscape on the left. Nevertheless, the rigorous structure of the composition and the striking colours anticipate the artist’s forthcoming experimentations and his evolution into abstract painting.
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