Untitled
Description
Medium: oil on canvas 
Size: 41 x 26 cm (62 x 47 cm with frame)
Signed "C Fattouh" on the front lower left
Provenance
Private collection, Lebanon. Acquired directly from the artist
Location
Lebanon
Description
Chucrallah Fattouh is a Lebanese painter and sculptor whose artistic practice unfolds at the intersection of expressionist intensity and lyrical abstraction. Educated at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Lebanese University, from which he graduated with honours in 1983, he developed a distinctive visual language rooted in the contemplation of his native landscape. The coastal horizon of Monsef, his birthplace, has remained a constant source of formal and emotional inspiration, shaping the chromatic restraint and structural rhythm that define his mature work.
Across more than four decades, his career has encompassed over one hundred exhibitions in Lebanon and abroad, including presentations at the Sursock Museum in Beirut, the Grand Palais in Paris, and Art Basel Miami. His works have also appeared in the catalogues of leading international auction houses such as Bonhams and Sotheby’s in London. Fattouh’s style reveals an ongoing negotiation between figuration and abstraction, where the human figure—most often the female form—emerges alongside urban and maritime scenes rendered through controlled gesture and a nuanced palette.
Although grounded in material expressiveness, his compositions display a deliberate equilibrium that tempers spontaneity with compositional discipline. The sea recurs as a central motif, functioning both as subject and metaphor for movement, impermanence, and emotional depth. His pictorial and sculptural production forms a cohesive body of work that privileges introspection and formal clarity over adherence to particular aesthetic trends.
Fattouh has received numerous distinctions, among them a medal from Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his participation in the Windsor exhibition during the GCC Polo Cup in 2007 and an award from the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum in 2023. His works are held in notable collections, including those of David Rockefeller, Giorgio Armani, Queen Elizabeth II, and Rafic al Hariri, consolidating his reputation within the wider field of contemporary Lebanese art.
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