Lot 58: * EMMANUEL GUIRAGOSSIAN (Lebanon, born 1954) Untitled

Emmanuel Guiragossian (Lebanon, born 1954)
Untitled
oil on canvas, framed
executed in 2013
130 x 170cm (51 3/16 x 66 15/16in).
FOOTNOTES
The eldest son of renowned artist Paul Guiragossian, Emmanuel belongs to the 6th generation of artists in his family of musicians, iconographists and painters.

As a student, his talents didn't go unnoticed and earned him an admission to the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1972 followed by more advanced courses at the Michelangelo Academy in Florence in 1973.

In 1974, Emmanuel obtained a scholarship and attended the Hochshüle fur BildendeKunst in Dresden-Germany. He specialized in Artistic Anatomy and graduated with honors in 1979. By the fall of that year, he returned to Lebanon where he became a professor at the AcademieLibanaise de Beaux Arts (ALBA) and the American University of Beirut until 1984.

From then on he actively worked on several solo exhibitions around the world while residing between Beirut, Germany, Canada and Jordan.

He also took on consulting with several major foundations in their projects such as the "Darat Al Funoon" museum in Amman, Jordan and became the artistic consultant to the project of rebuilding Down Town Beirut with Solidere.

In 1991, Emmanuel founded the Emmagoss Art gallery in Beirut, and then in 2004 The Paul Guiragossian Contemporary Art Museum was built in the suburbs of Beirut. In 2006 Emmanuel moved back to Germany and founded a second art gallery Emmagoss in Dresden a year later, where he exhibited works of contemporary German artists such as A.R. Penk, Marcus Lüpertz and others including his own.

Emmanuel Guiragossian's work has been exhibited in solo and collective shows, art fairs and auctions around the world for over 30 years. Currently he is based and works between Lebanon and Germany.