Representative work by Paul Guiragossian
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Artist

Paul Guiragossian

b. 1926, Jerusalem, Palestine · Based in Beirut, Lebanon

  • Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (1958)
  • Studio Yarkon, Jaffa
  • Painting
  • Thick Impasto
  • Figurative Abstraction

Paul Guiragossian was a monumental figure of modern Arab art whose thick, vertical impasto strokes coalesced into tight, vibrant processions of cloaked human figures. Surviving displacement as an Armenian-Palestinian refugee in Beirut, his sacred vertical lines embody human solidarity, grief, and spiritual transcendence.

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