Lot 31: AREF AL RAYYES (LEBANON, 1928-2005) Portrait of Kamal Jumblatt pencil

AREF AL RAYYES (LEBANON, 1928-2005) Portrait of Kamal Jumblatt pencil on paper, framed signed Al Rayyes and dated 1959 in Arabic (lower right) 69 x 49cm (27 3/16 x 19 5/16in).

Provenance Property from the collection of Georges El-Zeenny, Beirut Thence by descent to the present owner, London Kamal Fouad Jumblatt (1917 – 1977) was an important Lebanese politician. He was the main leader of the anti-government forces who opposed the Assad government in the Lebanese Civil War and major ally of the Palestine Liberation Organization until his assassination in 1977, He is the father of the Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. Thinker, philosopher, poet and author, Kamal Jumblatt lectured extensively and wrote more than 1200 editorials in both Arabic and French. Jumblatt was a distinguished ideologue and was considered the father of the contemporary Left in Lebanon despite his feudal background. Without love, man cannot construct. – Kamal Jumblatt