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"Khalil Zgheib was a seminal Lebanese naive painter. Born in Dbayeh in 1911, he began painting in his forties for reasons yet unknown. [...] He also participated in the Salons organized at the Sursock Museum in Beirut during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1968 he won the Sursock Museum’s First Prize for Painting. Furthermore, he was part of a group exhibition in Rome at the Galleria La Braccia in 1962. His paintings explore themes related to Lebanese tradition and everyday life; his work is definitely nostalgic, but also joyous and magical. The most common motifs in his work are weddings, everyday mountain life, village festivals (both day and night), agricultural practices, landscapes, and flowers." excerpt from The Naïve Arab Artist: Naïfs, Outsiders, L’art Autre, and L’art Brut in the Middle East, from the AUB Art Gallery exhibition.

KHALIL ZGHEIB (1912-1975)
Untitled
Oil on board. Signed lower left
H: 50cm, W: 75cm

Modern and Contemporary Art from Lebanon and the Middle East

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HASSAN JOUNI (B. 1942)
Landscape, 1995
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left
H: 70cm, W: 95cm

Modern and Contemporary Art from Lebanon and the Middle East

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"The ‘Alternate Worlds’ series is directly related to the rapid socio-political changes in the Arab region. The works represent records of fragments in time and place. They revolve around creating imagined alternate worlds, scenes that have a life of their own, as if trying to depict a specific event in history, a collective memory, a sense of togetherness, or a situation about to happen." - Via the artist's website, https://hibakalache.com/.

HIBA KALACHE (B. 1972)
The ascent, 2012
Ink, watercolor and acrylic lacquer on paper. H: 150cm, W: 150cm

Modern and Contemporary Art from Lebanon and the Middle East

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