Articles

Paul Guiragossian

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Born in  1926  in Jerusalem to Armenian parents, survivors of the Armenian Genocide, Paul Guiragossian experienced the consequences of exile from a very tender age.  Paul passed away in 1993 on the 20th of November in Beirut, after finalizing a magnificent oil painting, which he revealed to his family to be his best work yet. “ I finally accomplished what I always hoped for, bringing the old and the new in one painting.” This painting later entitled L'Adieu by the Guiragossians remains unsigned and in the Family Collection. L'Adieu

Saloua Raouda Choucair

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Saloua Raouda Choucair The artist and sculptor Saloua Raouda Choucair in an undated photograph. Saloua Raouda Choucair  ( Arabic :  سلوى روضة شقير ‎; June 24, 1916 – January 26, 2017) was a  Lebanese   painter  and  sculptor . [1] [2]  She is said to have been the first  abstract artist  in Lebanon [3]  though she sold nothing there until 1962