Lot 29: PAUL GUIRAGOSSIAN (LEBANON, 1926-1993) Les Mariées Femmes en Blanc oi

PAUL GUIRAGOSSIAN (LEBANON, 1926-1993) Les Mariées Femmes en Blanc oil on canvas, framed signed Paul, dated 1968 (lower right) and titled Les Mariées Femmes en Blanc, inscribed Near East School of Theology on the verso, executed in 1968 75 x 50cm (29 1/2 x 19 11/16in).

Provenance Property from a private collection, Los Angeles Exhibited Beirut, Near East School of Theology, circa 1968 One of the most talented and progressive artists to emerge from Lebanon, Paul Guiragossian is remembered as a pioneering figure of Middle Eastern Modernism. Paul Guiragossian was born in 1926 in Jerusalem to survivors of the Armenian genocide. He experienced the consequences of exile from a very young age. Guiragossian’s family settled in Beirut, Lebanon in 1947. In 1956, Guiragossian received a scholarship from the Italian Government to study at The Academy of Fine Arts Florence, which was soon followed by a further scholarship from the French government to attend Les Ateliers des Maîtres de l’Ecole de Paris. This led to his recognition both locally and internationally.