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Paul Guiragossian, 1926-1993, LEBANESE
MÈRE ET ENFANT (MOTHER AND CHILD), c. 1987
Oil on canvas
90 by 70cm.; 35 1/2 by 27 1/2 in.
Private collection
Paul Guiragossian (1926 – November 20, 1993) was
an Armenian Lebanese painter. Born to Armenian parents, Paul Guiragossian
experienced the consequences of exile from a very tender age. Raised in
boarding schools, he grew up away from his mother who had to work to make sure
her two sons got an education.
In the
1950s, Guiragossian started teaching art in several Armenian schools and worked
as an illustrator. He later started his own business with his brother Antoine,
painting cinema banners, posters and drawing illustrations for books. Soon
after he was discovered for his art and introduced to his contemporaries after
which he began exhibiting his works in Beirut and eventually all over the
world.
In 1956,
Guiragossian won the first prize in a painting competition, which landed him a
scholarship by the Italian government to study at The Academy of Fine Arts of
Florence.
In 1962,
Guiragossian was granted another scholarship, this time by the French
Government, to study and paint in Paris at Les Atelier Des Maîtres De L'Ecole
De Paris.
By the mid
1960s Guiragossian had grown to become one of the most celebrated artists in
Lebanon and eventually of the Arab world and even though war broke out in the
early 1970s, his attachment to Lebanon grew bigger and his works became more
colorful with messages of hope for his people.
In 1989, Guiragossian went to Paris to exhibit his works in
La Salle Des Pas Perdus in UNESCO and lived in the city with part of his family
until 1991. In that year, he had a solo exhibition at the Institut du Monde
Arabe. This exhibition was extended and marked the first solo show at the IMA
for any artist. More
on Guiragossian
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