Representative work by Shafic Abboud
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Artist

Shafic Abboud

1926–2004 · Lebanese-French · Based in Paris, France

  • Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA), Beirut (1947)
  • École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1950)
  • Painting
  • Tempera
  • Lithography

Shafic Abboud moved to Paris in 1947 and developed a luminous abstract painting language shaped by color, memory, landscape and the School of Paris. His canvases often begin from remembered places, seasons or interiors but dissolve into layered chromatic fields.

Painting; tapestry

Major Works

  • 1960sSaison
  • 1970sChambre
  • 1990sLes Cafés engloutis
  • 1970sEnfantine
  • 1980sNuit
  • 1980sLe Jardin
  • 1960sUntitled
  • 1980sLa Cathédrale
  • 1990sLes fenêtres
  • 2000sUntitled

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