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A MUSEUM
IN THE MAKING
Benefit Auction
Friday 30 January 2015
10.00 pm - Casino du Liban
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A MUSEUM
IN THE MAKING
Benefit Auction
Friday 30 January 2015
10.00 pm - Casino du Liban
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A MUSEUM IN THE MAKING
Dear Friends,
Lebanon has always been home for free ideas, progressive thinkers, pioneer movements and artistic
expression. A new narrative is taking shape in the region, regardless of the uncertainties surrounding
us. As this dynamic progresses, how do we remain viable in sustaining our freedoms and tolerance
and in preserving an outlook of diversity, pluralism and inclusiveness?
Beirut Contemporary is a pioneering new museum of modern and contemporary art
in Lebanon. Developed by APEAL in conjunction with a network of Lebanese and
international partners, the museum will stand on a site donated by the Université de
Saint Joseph, at Beirut’s thriving Mathaf intersection.
Art is the highest measure of our universal humanity and of the spirit of civilizations, which endure
in perpetuity. It stems from our innermost truths, our darkest fears and addresses our hopes and
dreams. Art, in all its forms, remains the lasting footprint in the history of nations and people. Artists in
Lebanon have survived against the odds and the turmoil of these last few decades. Their innovation
and fearlessness have led the way through the dim tunnels of adversity and circumstance. With a new
world-class museum, we want to give them and their brave, intrepid journey a home. We want Beirut
Contemporary to be a temple of delight, wonderment and discovery for art lovers from around the
world. It will not just be a repository of works of art, but a vibrant platform for change, artistic ferment
and evolution. It will not only exhibit modern and contemporary art but will also feature performance art
and develop capabilities for restoration, research and education as well. Taking a leaf out of the book
of museums and art institutions around the world, striving to remain in synch with their communities
and urban communities and to become vehicles for change and enrichment, we will engage with our
environment in the most dynamic way. To survive and continue attracting the generations building our
future, museums have to adapt and stay in tune with the times. Ours will be no different. Its content
and message will not be static but fluid and interactive.
In the past year, the Association for the Promotion and Exhibition of the Arts in Lebanon has been
actively working with Lebanese and international consultants to draw up a comprehensive vision and
blueprint for the museum’s mission, function, governance structure, capital and operational costs and
business plan. Our endeavor and efforts are geared towards making Beirut Contemporary a focal point
and epicenter of cultural and creative ferment, along a line of emerging and new museum. It stretches
from the National Museum, through Beirut Contemporary, to Lebanon’s Prehistoric Museum at the
Université St. Joseph, the recently opened and impressive Mineral Museum, also associated with the
Jesuit University, the planned Beit Beirut, House of Beirut, and others. Beirut Contemporary will be a
window onto Lebanon’s cultural and artistic potential and offer an open view to those of the region.
Lebanese architects are busy coming up with various designs that will best fit and showcase the
museum’s purpose and style. A select jury will announce the competition’s final result in due time.
Though public and private sources of funding in other countries have shared the burden of subsidizing
and sustaining museums, the Lebanese government has been weighed down with other priorities.
Over-taxed infrastructure, political discord and a massive influx of refugees have sucked up all public
resources of assistance to the arts. APEAL has taken it upon itself to shoulder what it sees as a sacred
and decisive responsibility. We invite and urge you to join us in bringing this very important venture to
fruition. Beirut Contemporary will have a crucial role in preserving unity and rallying the nation and the
region around change, progress and a plurality of fresh ideas. You have a role in making this happen,
in raising awareness and sensitivity towards inclusiveness and minority communities to the highest
levels. We do this by acknowledging our realities through artistic and cultural expression and by
projecting how we see ourselves, and how the rest of the world can perceive us.
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Sincerely,
Henrietta Nammour
President of APEAL
A generation on from the end of the Lebanese civil war, a rich and substantial
artistic community exists in Beirut, with Lebanese talent increasingly celebrated
and collected across the international art world. Despite regional instability, the
tenacity of Lebanese artists, curators, thinkers and activists has generated a vibrant
local scene. Grown from grass-roots, it is defined by innovation and fearlessness.
However, major governmental support for artists does not yet exist in Lebanon. Nor
does an internationally-recognized contemporary museum. Beirut Contemporary
will fill this space, a twenty-first century museum that aims to contribute to
meaningful art discourse in Lebanon and beyond, and form strong and lasting
relationships with its local communities. Open to all, the museum will be actively
shaped by the communities it serves, and enter into dynamic dialogue with the
vibrant and diverse publics that make up Beirut.
Art and culture are catalysts for economic regeneration, on city-wide and regional
levels. Museums generate revenue and stimulate local economic activity, raising
the value of real estate and creating varied and stable jobs in an increasingly
knowledge-based economy. More conceptually, art institutions contribute to a
sense of place and belonging, becoming sources of pride and national identity.
Beirut Contemporary hopes to be a vehicle for sharing Lebanese values and ideals,
connecting with the Lebanese diaspora and promoting peaceful dialogue through
the power of the visual and performing arts.
Building a core collection that reflects the strength and diversity of Lebanese
art, Beirut Contemporary’s exhibitions will bring Middle-Eastern artists of the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries into dialogue with international art contexts.
Featuring state-of-the-art galleries, performance spaces, library and archive, Beirut
Contemporary is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of artistic and curatorial
talent, in Lebanon, the Middle-East, and beyond. As an independent institution,
Beirut Contemporary aims to be a stable site for the creation of art discourse,
public education and community engagement.
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Guest Speaker
Lord (Peter) Palumbo
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He is a trustee of the Visiting Committee of the Mies van der Rohe archive at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Design Museum in London. He has
served as a trustee of the Tate Gallery in London and six other institutions and
foundations. He is chairman and Chairman Emeritus of the Serpentine Gallery in
London and was chairman of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture from 2010-2012. He
was appointed as chairman of the Arts Council in Great Britain from 1994-2014 and
as chairman of the Tate Gallery Foundation in 1985-1986 and he is currently the
chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust among others. Lord Palumbo was a board member of the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York, The
Royal Albert Hall in London and of The Royal Shakespeare Company, among others
including member of the advisory board to the Lebanese International Finance
Executive. He has been awarded no less than eight titles and honors for his many
achievements in his working life and the arts. He was chancellor of the University
of Plymouth from 1992-2007, governor of The London School of Economics from
1976-1994 and of the Whitgift School in England from 2002-2010. He has written
for various publications on subjects related to the arts and architecture and lectured
and spoken publically at a host of venues, academies and universities. “
The impact of a Modern and Contemporary Museum of Art of quality upon the inhabitants of the
town or city in which it is located, is best demonstrated by the City of Bilbao in Spain, with the
advent there of the Guggenheim Museum. Before that great event, the city had been riven by
turmoil, violence, and dissent. Since its completion, however, these negative qualities have been
replaced by the three Rs, - reconciliation, rehabilitation, and regeneration.
And why not? The Arts, after all, have the capacity to transcend physical boundaries, as well as
boundaries of language, race, colour, religion and class, by virtue of the fact that the talent of
artists represents at its best, the highest achievement of which the human spirit is capable.
No wonder that the Arts are also a yardstick by which the civilised nature of any society can
be, and is, measured, introducing in the process, pride and hope, both of which are precious
components of contemporary life. In fact, of course, this same sense of pride and hope have
worked their magic since the beginning of time.
Because of an antiquity that stretches back many millennia, Lebanon finds itself in the forefront
of Middle Eastern culture. Add to that the legendary financial brilliance of its people, and their
equally legendary resilience, and the winning formula is complete!
If Antiquity gives Lebanon a head start in matters of cultural excellence, that long and noble
pedigree has endowed the DNA of its people with the same aura, whether they are aware of
it, or not. And as a result, they have no need to clothe their culture in superficial glitter, or the
cosmetic fashion of the moment: no need to market their work for instant consumption or to
stunt their stuff that some might categorise as arrogance, because they know that money can
never be a substitute for talent; and that no amount of money can buy heritage or tradition.
So the Lebanese approach will be of a very different order – an article of faith in the modern
world: a witness to contemporary history; a repository of events, some shattering, other sublime.
And because artists are free agents of perception who have the capacity to see and to convey,
they are able to capture the moment in all its horror or glory as an expression of living memory.
The social, educational, and economic benefits that will follow such an enterprise are boundless;
and they will add a new, and fresh dimension to the life of Lebanon, - exciting, exhilarating, as
only a celebration of the truth of positive energy can provide.
Crowds will flock to the Museum from within the country, and from all four corners of the globe,
for Beirut has always been a powerful and joyful beacon, and a destination that has no need
to look for an audience, or to offer inducements to sample its wares. What it will offer will be a
transformative experience through the medium of artistic excellence that will speak without fear
or favour. It will also play a leading role in strengthening the creation production, distribution and
enjoyment of culture and services at the local and regional level.
In these troubled times of economic fear, uncertainty, and dislocation, it is essential to record,
and not only to record, but to emphasise once again, that the Arts speak a universal language
that is, in every way, an indispensable adjunct to any potential initiative, in furthering international
relationships and understanding; bringing harmony where there is discord; hope where there is
despair; light where there is darkness; and creativity where there is chaos.
Let this development for Beirut and Lebanon be the beginning of something bold, beautiful, and
brave: And let us all resolve to work together to ensure that this Modern and Contemporary
Museum of the Arts becomes a reality.
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Baron Palumbo of Walbrook, an Eton and Oxford graduate, studied law, rose
to prominence as a successful developer and became an avid art collector and
dedicated patron, with a lifelong passion and appreciation for fine architecture. He
has commissioned designs by the late Sir James Stirling and Mies van der Rohe,
both celebrated and world known architects, for prestigious and historic sites and
memorials in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 1972 and 1986, he
commissioned sculptures and a sundial by Henry Moore and half a dozen works of
art by other leading artists and designers. He secured the purchase of properties
owned buy Frank Lloyd Wright and van der Rohe in America and oversaw their
embellishment and opening to the public.
Peter Palumbo
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APEAL Pride Award
Raymond Wadih Audi
An annual prize presented to an individual for outstanding achievement and distinguished
service rendered in one of the fields of promoting culture and raising the profile of Lebanese
art at home and abroad. The criteria for selection are based on the highest standards of
excellence and professionalism in sensitizing audiences to great discoveries, advances and
novelties from various facts of the cultural realm of Lebanon and beyond.
Raymond Audi is the essence and epitome of a renaissance man.
He is not only a giant in the banking business, but also an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a
keen patron of the arts and a true patriot with an eye for the aesthetic and a reverence for
culture and its role in the preservation of civilizations.
A banker by profession and training, he was instrumental, alongside his father and brothers,
in the development of a centenarian family enterprise, which culminated in Banque Audi
in 1962. He engineered the early development of the bank, establishing the first merchant
bank in Lebanon and then presiding over the local, regional and international expansion
of the Banque Audi brand with eight subsidiaries abroad, in France, Jordan, Syria, Egypt,
Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Monaco and Turkey.
The bank grew steadily and its impact beyond Lebanese borders buoyed its standing
as one of the top 20 Arab banks. Banque Audi has alternatively also topped the list of
Lebanese banks and maintained its leading and dynamic role in consolidating the Lebanese
banking sector despite Lebanon’s turbulent history.
Audi’s benevolent reach and contribution is outstanding. He is a founding member of the
Executive Committee of the Chronic Care Center and has also served as its treasurer
since 1993. He is also a board member of the Notre Dame de Jamhour and the Lebanese
American University. He founded the Fondation Nationale du Patrimoine, Lebanon’s National
Heritage Foundation and is an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees of International
College. He is one of the founding members of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital,
a children’s cancer center, and founder of the Audi Foundation, which is dedicated to
the promotion, relaunching and appreciation of the professions of craftsmanship and the
restoration of historical sites, urban spaces and streets, especially in the port city of Sidon.
He strives to boost the spirit of entrepreneurship as a member of Injaz, a non-governmental
organization. He finances some 20 scholarships a year based on merit. He has contributed
to UNICEF, the Chronic Care Center, the United Nations Development Program and Saint
Jude’s Research Hospital and the Foyer de la Providence. He has been awarded no less
than 15 honors and distinctions in Lebanon and around the world.
Audi has encouraged art and the universe of artists by transforming his banks into
resplendent museums and showcases for great architecture. The headquarters of Banque
Audi in Switzerland houses an impressive collection of seventeenth century masterpieces.
The new flagship headquarters of Audi Plaza Beirut is a feast for the eyes. It is considered a
unique treasure and gem with its facade in the downtown area that was built by Lebanese
and European architects. It has on exhibit one of the finest and richest collections of
Lebanese and French painters such as Jacques Villon, Edward Vuillard, Gaston Chaissac,
Raoul Dufy, Francois Rouan, Marwan Bachi and scores of others. * APEAL Pride Award sculpture by Nadim Karam
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Master of Ceremony
Christie’s Auctioneer
Ali Jaber is a prominent Lebanese journalist and TV personality, and is currently the
Group TV Director of MBC, the Arab world’s largest satellite broadcaster.
In over 30 years as an auctioneer at Christie’s, Hugh has conducted more
than 2,200 auctions, selling 290,000 lots for a total sum in excess of £1.85
billion. The highlight of his career in the rostrum came in Hong Kong in
November 2014 when he sold a 15th Century Chinese Imperial embroidered
silk Thangka for HK$348 million (£28.9 million), the world record for any
Chinese work of art sold by an international auction house.
Ali Jaber
As a journalist, Mr Jaber had the opportunity to interview the late Rafic Hariri, who
would become Prime Minister in 1992. It was Mr Hariri who approached Jaber to set
up Future TV, the Hariri television network, which is still in operation today.
A decade later, Jaber was invited by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Vice
President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to work as a media consultant involved in
restructuring the TV operation of the government-owned Dubai Media Incorporated,
and to revamp and re-launch its four national pan-Arab satellite channels.
In 2008 Jaber was invited by the Sheikh to set up a Communication School at
the American University in Dubai, and was named Dean of Mohammed Bin Rashid
School of Communication, which this year graduates fifty students with degrees
in Journalism and Digital Storytelling. The school is unique in teaching all media
writing courses in Arabic.
Jaber also serves on the Board of Directors of two non-governmental organizations,
the Clinton Global Initiative and Young Arab Leaders, and is currently an ambassador
for SANAD, a home hospice association in Lebanon.
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After studying Business Administration at the American University in Beirut as
an undergraduate, Mr Jaber moved to New York to study for a Master’s degree
in Communication at Syracuse University. In 1986 he returned to Lebanon,
at a time when many others were fleeing the country and the civil war. His
career in journalism began soon after he arrived, when he picked up work
as a war correspondent for The New York Times, The Times and the German
Press Agency, and joined the Fine Arts faculty of Beirut University College. He
helped set up their Broadcasting Department and taught a range of courses in
television production.
Jaber spoke at the TEDxBeirut conference for inspirational leaders in 2011, an
address about the official launch of The Global Classroom, a project he established
at the American University in Dubai in partnership with the company Cisco. It is the
first such initiative in the Arab world that gives students access to the best professors,
business leaders and guest lecturers located around the globe, online.
Jaber’s current role is as Group TV Director of MBC, a post he has held since
September 2011. He is in charge of MBC’s 13 television channels, and serves as a
celebrity judge on popular television show, Arabs Got Talent.
He is currently studying for a PhD in the history of satellite television in the Arab world,
at Cambridge University, and has been named as one of the 500 Most Influential
Muslims in the world by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, an independent
non-governmental research entity.
Hugh Edmeades
Hugh has auctioned works of art from a number of historic collections
including those of H.R.H. the late Princess Margaret, the Spencer
collections at Althorp, the collection of the late Simon Sainsbury and
in December 2011, part of the Elizabeth Taylor Collection in New York.
Further interesting and unusual highlights have included Audrey Hepburn’s
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” dress which sold in December 2006 for £467,000;
the oldest existing F.A. Cup which sold for £478,400 in May 2005 and Ursula
Andress’s bikini from James Bond’s Dr No for £41,000 in February 2001.
Hugh is a much sought after auctioneer for high-profile national and
international charity auctions and throughout his career has conducted
over 600 sales raising in excess of £70 million for charitable causes. Hugh
has conducted charity auctions all around the world, including in Bahrain,
Chandigarh, Moscow, New Delhi, Paris, New York, Geneva, Monaco, Dubai,
Beirut, Zurich, Doha, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Mumbai, and Casablanca.
In 2005, he was chosen to conduct the BBC’s inaugural televised celebrity
auction in aid of Children in Need. In 2008, he conducted the auction for
Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday Gala in London, selling the eight lots for a
total of £4.3 million.
Hugh joined Christie’s in 1978 as a furniture specialist. In 1984, he became
Head of the Furniture Department at Christie’s South Kensington and in the
same year conducted his first auction. In 1990, Hugh became Director of
Specialist Departments and then after three years as Deputy Chairman, he
was appointed Chairman of Christie’s South Kensington in 1999. In 2006
Hugh was appointed as Christie’s International Auctioneer.
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A MUSEUM IN THE MAKING
Benefit Auction /21 Lots
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AUCTION
Friday 30 January 2015
10 pm
Casino du Liban
Jounieh, Lebanon
VIEWING
Quantum House, 164 Sursock
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#01
Omar Onsi
(b.1901)
Landscape
Signed (lower left)
Oil on panel
40 x 43 cm
circa 1935
Courtesy of a Private Collector
$15,000 - 25,000
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Omar Onsi was a Lebanese artist who, after an attempt to study medicine, learnt
to paint with Khalil Saleeby. From 1922 to 1927, he travelled to Transjordan, where
he taught painting and English to the children of King Abdullah. The discovery of
the desert and its colors during this stay had a major influence on Onsi’s work.
In 1928, Onsi went to Paris to continue his training, where he remained for three
years, attending the Académie Julian and different workshops. During this period,
Onsi focused on painting portraits, nudes, and Parisian scenery. In 1933 he
returned to Lebanon, bringing back a colorful Impressionist palette. From then on,
his work focused on the Lebanese landscape.
Omar Onsi stands apart among the “founding fathers” of Lebanese painting because
his life was so entrenched in his art that there is scarcely anything for a biographer to
extricate. Furthermore, the art itself was wholly blended with the light and landscape
of his country, with the humanity of a traditional Lebanon. This approach is fixed in
his portraits, little genre scenes, and images of a wonderfully happy land on which he
fastened his gaze and bestowed devotion.
Onsi died in 1969, and has since become one of Lebanon’s best-known artists.
#02
César Gemayel
(b.1898)
Portrait of a Woman
Signed (lower left)
Oil on board
50 x 40 cm
circa 1940
Courtesy of a Private Collector
$ 9,000 - 12,000
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César Gemayel was born in 1898 at Ain al-Touffaha near Bikfaya. As a young
student, Gemayel started out studying pharmacology, to which he was
genuinely devoted. But he was a gifted painter and, taught by Lebanese
master painter Khalil Saleeby, it was art that he made his life’s work.
Gemayel was most attracted to Impressionism and Fauvism, and his work and
talent were recognized in 1931, when he won first prize at the Paris Exhibition
Coloniale Internationale. The prestigious award set Gemayel firmly on an
artistic path; he returned to his native Lebanon, abandoned any thoughts of
being a pharmacist and turned his full attention to developing his painting.
Enamored with his country, Lebanon was Gemayel’s main inspiration, its
mountains, villages, folk life, city streets and people. All these subjects fed his
love of color, working in strong shades of red, green and blue.
Gemayel died suddenly in 1958, and stands among the second generation of
the founding fathers of Lebanese painting, inspiring many who came after him.
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Habib Srour
(b.1860)
Nu Académique
Oil on canvas
52 x 60 cm
circa 1885
Courtesy of a Private Collector
$ 8,000 - 12,000
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Born in Lebanon in 1860, Habib Srour was 10 years-old when his
parents moved to Rome, where he went on to study at the Institute
of Fine Arts. Srour was an important figure in the artistic renaissance
that emerged in Lebanon at the end of the nineteenth century. He is
credited with pioneering principles of Modernist artistic practice, using
light, shadow and form in an expressive and evocative manner. Srour was much in demand as a portrait painter of prominent Lebanese
and Arab social, political and religious figures of the Ottoman Empire.
As with all the artists of his generation, Srour was faithful to the
classical school, but this did not prevent him from breaking out of the
narrow framework of Formalism in order to give himself some liberty in
the choice and treatment of his subjects. In his religious commissions,
which were highly sought-after, the artist adopted a more conservative
approach. It is his portraits, more experimental and expressive, for
which he is best known. Habib Srour died in 1938, but his work is as
relevant today in the world of art as it was 95 years ago.
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Elie Kanaan (b.1926)
Untitled
Signed (lower left)
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm
circa 1985
Courtesy of the Elie Kanaan Family
$15,000 - 20,000
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Born in Beirut in 1926, Elie Kanaan is a self-taught artist
whose artistic abilities were evident from a young age.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he studied and travelled
to Paris and Italy before returning to Lebanon. In 1957
he won first prize at the Salon du Printemps, and the
UNESCO prize in 1958. From 1962, Kanaan participated
in many individual and group exhibitions – biennales, art
fairs and salons worldwide – as well as receiving a variety
of awards. These included a prize from the Lebanese
President of the Republic, the Philips prize, the Vendome
Prize in 1967, and two from the Sursock Museum. Kanaan
also served as Professor at the Lebanese Academy of Art.
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Shafic Abboud
(b.1926)
Untitled
$ 80,000 - 120,000
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Signed and dated (lower right and on the reverse)
Tempera and oil on panel
80 x 100 cm
1958
To be included in upcoming catalogue raisonné under Id1849
Courtesy of the Shafic Abboud Family
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Born in Lebanon in 1926, Chafic Abboud graduated from the Lebanese
Academy of Fine Arts in 1947. After moving to Paris, he frequented André
Lhote’s workshop and was a pupil of the Cubist master Fernand Léger. In
1952 he enrolled at the prestigious Ecole Nationale Supérieure des BeauxArts where he studied drawing and engraving. In 1959, Abboud participated
in the first Paris Biennale. He was awarded the Prix Victor Choquet in 1961,
and granted solo exhibitions in France, Lebanon, Italy, Germany, Holland,
and Denmark. His works feature in the permanent collection of the Centre
Georges Pompidou in Paris and hang in French government buildings.
A catalogue raisonné of Abboud’s work has recently been published by
the Gallery Claude Lemand, Paris. A major retrospective of the artist at
the Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, in 2011, shed light on more than 190
works spanning his entire painting career (1948-2003). The Beirut Exhibition
Center presented another extensive retrospective of Abboud’s work in
2012. Abboud lived in Paris until he passed away in 2004.
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Shafic Abboud
(b.1926)
Untitled
$ 40,000 - 60,000
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Signed and dated (lower right)
Mixed media on paper laid on canvas
50 x 60.5 cm
1959
To be included in upcoming catalogue raisonné under Id1691
Courtesy of the Shafic Abboud Family
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Born in Lebanon in 1926, Chafic Abboud graduated from the Lebanese
Academy of Fine Arts in 1947. After moving to Paris, he frequented André
Lhote’s workshop and was a pupil of the Cubist master Fernand Léger. In
1952 he enrolled at the prestigious Ecole Nationale Supérieure des BeauxArts where he studied drawing and engraving. In 1959, Abboud participated
in the first Paris Biennale. He was awarded the Prix Victor Choquet in 1961,
and granted solo exhibitions in France, Lebanon, Italy, Germany, Holland,
and Denmark. His works feature in the permanent collection of the Centre
Georges Pompidou in Paris and hang in French government buildings.
A catalogue raisonné of Abboud’s work has recently been published by
the Gallery Claude Lemand, Paris. A major retrospective of the artist at
the Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, in 2011, shed light on more than 190
works spanning his entire painting career (1948-2003). The Beirut Exhibition
Center presented another extensive retrospective of Abboud’s work in
2012. Abboud lived in Paris until he passed away in 2004.
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Paul Guiragossian
(b.1926)
Untitled
Signed (lower right)
Watercolor on paper
73 x 52 cm
1980
“Gebraniyyet” Series.
Certificate of authenticity from Guiragossian Foundation
Courtesy of a Private Collector
$15,000 - 25,000
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One of Lebanon’s most celebrated artists, Paul Guiragossian
was born in 1926 in Jerusalem, to Armenian refugee
parents. In 1939 the family moved to Beirut, where he lived
until his death in 1993. Guiragossian started to paint in
1942 at the Yarcon Studio, and began his artistic training
in 1944 at the Italian Academy Pietro Langhetti. In 1956 he
received a scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts
in Florence, after which he spent many years studying and
painting in Paris and the United States. His work is present
in many collections throughout the Middle East and across
the world, including that of the Vatican Museum.
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Alfred Basbous
(b.1924)
Abstract
$10,000 - 15,000
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Signed and dated (on the base)
Bronze with gold patina
20 x 40 x 26 cm
1972
Edition 6/8
Courtesty of the Alfred Basbous Family
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Born in Rachana, Lebanon, in 1924, three years following the
birth of his brother Michel, Alfred Basbous had a peripatetic
childhood. His family moved around, living among different
communities, as his father was a parish priest.
Alfred worked with stone early on, and began carving works
in wood and metal too, primarily to represent animals and
female nudes. In 1960, he received a scholarship from the
French government and became a pupil of the sculptor
René Collamarini at L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1961, his works were included in
the International Sculpture Exhibition at the Musée Rodin,
Paris. Returning home, Alfred drew inspiration from the
Modernism of Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore and Jean Arp,
as well as the nature of Lebanon, reflected in his work on
the human body and feminine curves.
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Michel Basbous
(b.1921)
Dancer
$ 30,000 - 40,000
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1952
Edition 6/8
Courtesy of the Michel Basbous Family
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Michel Basbous was born in Rachana, Lebanon, in 1921.
Between 1945 and 1949 he studied sculpture at the
Academie Libanaise de Beaux-Arts in Beirut. Between 1949
and 1951 he studied at L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure de
Beaux-Arts in Paris, on a scholarship from the Lebanese
government. He went back to Paris to study in the atelier of
Ossip Zadkine between 1954 and 1955.
In 1957 he became a Professor of Sculpture at the American
University of Beirut, and returned to his native village of
Rachana in 1958, where he exhibited his sculptures and
turned Rachana into an artistic and cultural center. He married
Therese Aouad, a poet and an author in 1967. They had their
only child Anachar (“Rachana” spelled backwards) in 1969.
After a fruitful life, Michel Basbous passed away in 1981.
At a time when the country was revisiting its heritage, his
oeuvre questioned the spread of modernity.
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Dia Azzaoui
(b.1939)
Imaginary Plant
$ 30,000 - 40,000
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51 x 49 cm
2014
Edition 3/7
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Claude Lemand
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Born in Baghdad in 1939, Azzawi studied art and archeology at the
Faculty of Arts at Baghdad University. 1965 represents many of
Azzawi’s promising firsts, though it was by no means his career’s
zenith: his first solo exhibition was held in Baghdad; his first two
collective exhibitions, one of which toured Beirut, Rome, Vienna, and
Madrid; and his first international exhibition at the Premiére Triennale
of International Art in New Delhi. In 1976 Azzawi was appointed Art
Consultant at the Iraqi Cultural Centre in London. His work organising
exhibitions for Arab and Iraqi artists at the Center was instrumental
in introducing Arab art to the British public. The Museum of Modern
Art, Baghdad; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Library of
Congress, Washington D.C.; and Arab Monetary Fund, Abu Dhabi
comprise a few of the many public collections in which Azzawi’s
works hang. He now lives in London where he is an artist-collector,
and he regularly publishes his commentary on Iraqi contemporary
art and Arab art. Azzawi’s epic drawing Sabra and Shatila Massacre,
1982-83, is currently on view at Tate Modern in London.
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Jamil Molaeb
(b.1948)
‫قرية البيئة البيضاء‬
Signed (lower right)
Oil on canvas
155 x 110 cm
2014
Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Janine Rubeiz
$10,000 - 15,000
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Jamil Molaeb was born in Lebanon in 1948. Trained under some of the
most distinguished Lebanese Modernist painters, Jamil Molaeb’s signature
paintings conceive of the abstract color field as a traditional landscape,
evoking through those minimal pictorial frameworks the magic simplicity
of miniatures and icons. Molaeb has the unique ability to marry diverse
techniques, for instance folkloric woodcuts with a bright, Expressionist palette.
Molaeb has featured in myriad solo and group exhibitions in Lebanon, Algeria,
and the United States since 1966, including a number of art fairs: Art Abu
Dhabi, Beirut Art Fair, Art Dubai and Art14 London. He has published four
books, including Xylographies-Woodcuts with Galerie Janine Rubeiz in 2014.
His work has been acquired by public and private collections including The
World Bank in Washington D.C.
Molaeb holds a Master’s degree from the Pratt Institute in New York and a
PhD in Art Education from the University of Ohio. He was formerly Professor
of Art at the Lebanese American University and the Lebanese University.
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Chaouki Chamoun
(b.1942)
I Invent Peace When I Do Not Find it
Signed and dated (lower left)
Acrylic on canvas
160 x 145.5 cm
2014
Courtesy of the artist
$ 40,000 - 60,000
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Chaouki Chamoun was born in Lebanon in 1942. In 1972 he
received his Diploma of Higher Studies in Painting from the
Lebanese University in Beirut. The first in his class, he was awarded
a six-year fellowship from the Lebanese University to pursue his
graduate studies in the United States. In 1975, he received his MFA
from Syracuse University in New York, followed by a PhD in Art
Education from NYU, from which he was awarded a Meritorious
Commendation for High Scholastic Achievement. He has had over
thirty solo shows since 1975, and has participated in over fifty
group exhibitions and biennales including at Rochester Memorial
Museum, Sursock Museum, Al-Khorafi International Arabic Biennale
(2006), Alexandria Biennale (2008) and the Katzen Art Museum. His
work is also held in several public and private art collections.
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Nabil Nahas
(b.1949)
Tyrian Purple
Signed (on the reverse)
Acrylic on canvas
122 x 122 cm
2009
Courtesy of the artist
$100,000 - 150,000
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Nabil Nahas was born in Beirut in 1949, but spent the first ten years
of his life in Cairo, before his family returned to Lebanon. In 1969 he
arrived in the United States for Undergraduate studies, having grown
up familiar with Western culture – especially the art and literature of
France. Nahas also has vivid memories of the books and catalogues
that gave him his first exposure to the abstract painting of post-war
New York. He received degrees from Louisiana State University
in 1971 and Yale University in 1973. Since then he has built a
reputation as one of America’s foremost contemporary artists, with
many solo shows, first at the Robert Miller Gallery, New York; Gallerie
Montenay, Paris; Sperone Westwater, New York; and Gallerie Xippas,
Paris. He has participated in several group exhibitions, including the
Basel Art Fair, 1979, and the XXVth Bienal de São Paulo, 2002.
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Azade Köker
(b.1949)
Beyrut
Signed (on the reverse of the right panel)
Mixed technique on canvas
Diptych (each 170 x 250 cm)
2014
Courtesy of the artist and Galeri Zilberman
$150,000 - 200,000
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Azade Köker was born in Istanbul in 1949. She is an academic,
a painter and installation artist from Turkey, currently residing in
Germany. Her dual nationality has defined her work and identity
as an artist with a multicultural background – reflected in her
multi-faceted work with photography, ceramics, installation and
painting. After completing her studies at the Istanbul Academy
of Fine Arts in 1971, Köker pursued further studies at the Berlin
School of Fine Arts in the Department of Industrial Design and
the Department of Sculpture. Since the early nineties, Köker
has been teaching in several Universities in Germany and is
currently a professor at the Braunschweig Technical University.
Her first exhibitions were held in the 1980s and she continues
to exhibit her work at a global level today. Right panel
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Akram Zaatari
(b.1966)
Untitled (Plane 6)
Archival inkjet print
145 x 100 cm
2013
Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir Semler Gallery
$15,000 - 20,000
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Born in 1966, Zaatari is one of Lebanon’s most globally-renowned
contemporary artists. Zaatari’s practice reflects on the shifting nature of
borders and the production and circulation of images, in the context of the
current political divisions in the Middle-East. His videos and photographic
installations explore notions of surveillance, and the deployment of
technology in the service of power, resistance, and memory.
As co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation, Zaatari is deeply
invested in examining how photography serves to shape notions of
aesthetics, postures and social codes, looking at the present through
a wealth of past photographic records from the region. Zaatari has
been focusing since 1999 on the archive of Studio Shehrazade in
Saida, Lebanon, studying, indexing, and presenting the work of
photographer Hashem el-Madani, as a register of social relationships
and photographic practices. Zaatari represented Lebanon at the Venice
Biennale in 2013 with Letter to a Refusing Pilot.
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MARWAN SAHMARANI
(b.1970)
The Crying Man
$18,000 - 25,000
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Oil on canvas
170 x 150 cm
2014
The last painting (IV) of the series painted exclusively for this auction
Courtesy of the artist
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Marwan Sahmarani was born in Beirut in 1970, and graduated
from the Atelier Met de Penninghen in Paris, France in 1989.
Sahmarani has participated in a variety of solo exhibitions
in London, Dubai, Canada and Beirut as well as group
exhibitions in Munich, Washington D.C. and Mexico. His most
recent group museum exhibitions are Told/Untold/Retold at
the Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar in 2010 and
The Feast of the Damned at the Museum of Art & Design,
New York, USA in 2010. Sahmarani was also one of three
recipients of the prestigious Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2010. #17
Oussama Baalbaki
(b.1978)
Untitled
Signed and dated (lower right)
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 cm
2014
Courtesty of the artist and Agial Gallery
$10,000 - 15,000
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Born in Beirut in 1978, Oussama Baalbaki graduated
with honors in 2002 from the Lebanese University
School of Fine Arts. In 2009, he received the Silver
Medal in Painting at the International Jeux de la
Francophonie, in which he represented Lebanon.
He has had four solo exhibitions since 2004,
including a show at Agial Gallery, Beirut, and more
recently, a painting exhibition hosted by FFA Private
Bank in Lebanon. Baalbaki has participated in various
group exhibitions in Dubai, Lebanon, Qatar, Germany
and the US. He now lives and works in Beirut.
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Abdulrahman Katanani
(b.1983)
Splendor in the Grass
Signed (on the reverse)
Mixed media on canvas
140 x 380 cm
2014
Courtesty of the artist and Agial Gallery
$20,000 - 30,000
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Abdul Rahman Katanani is a Palestinian artist born in Beirut
in 1983. He graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from
the Lebanese College, where he also achieved an MA in
Painting. Katanani has lived all his life as a refugee in Shatila
camp, Lebanon. He has been exhibiting in caricature and
fine art shows in Beirut, Paris and Kuala Lumpur since 2001.
He was twice awarded a prize by the Sursock Museum at
the occasion of their Salon d’Automne in 2009, and has
also received the Young Artist Prize, and a Special Mention
from the Jury in 2008. Katanani is currently attending a 15
months residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
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Nadim Karam
(b.1957)
“The Urban Zoo”
Signed (lower right)
Mixed media on canvas
140 x 205 cm
2013
Courtesy of the artist and Ayyam Gallery
$ 20,000 - 30,000
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Born in Senegal in 1957, Nadim Karam is a multidisciplinary artist. A
prominent figure in the Lebanese art scene, he graduated from the
American University of Beirut and received graduate and postgraduate
degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Karam has exhibited in
galleries and institutions internationally, contributing to such notable
events as the Liverpool Biennale, the Venice Biennale and the Gwangju
Biennial in South Korea. His works are housed in corporate and
cultural foundations in the Arab World and Europe, Asia, and Australia.
In 1996, he established l’Atelier Hapsitus, a studio that he defines
as “the satellite grouping of young architects and designers around
happenings and situations.” Atelier Hapsitus has become a vehicle
for Karam’s unique oeuvre, boasting a number of works and projects
that blend architecture, design and art. His sculptural series, entitled
Closets & Closets was on display at the Institut du Monde Arabe,
Paris, in 2012-2013, while Ayyam Gallery, London presented his solo
show Shooting the Cloud for their grand opening in January 2013.
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Marwan Kassab Bachi
(b.1934)
Marionette 1
Signed (on the reverse)
Pencil and gouache on paper
21 x 30 cm
2007
Courtesty of the artist and Sfeir Semler Gallery
$ 6,000 - 8,000
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Born in 1934 in Damascus, Syria, Marwan Kassab Bachi, known as Marwan, is one of
the most distinguished Syrian artists. After studying Arabic Literature in Damascus,
he moved to Germany in 1957. He undertook a degree in Painting at the Higher
Institute of Fine Arts in Berlin under the supervision of Hann Trier, where he later
became a teacher. He was granted a permanent Chair at the University since 1980.
He founded the Summer Academy at Darat Al-Funun (under the patronage of Suha
Shoman) Art Foundation in Jordan in 1999. From 1967 until the present, Marwan
has exhibited widely across the world, predominantly in Germany, France, the USA,
and Syria. He was offered a scholarship from the Cité des Arts, Paris in 1973, and
granted the Karl Hofer (1966) and Fred Thieler (2002) awards, the Merit Order of the
Federal Republic of Germany (2005) and the Lebanese Cultural Forum Award (2005).
His work is highly prized and forms part of many international museum collections,
such as the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; The Museum of the National Library; The
National Museum of Damascus; The Syrian Ministry of Culture and the Presidential
and People’s Palace, Syria; the Carnegie Museum of Art, USA, and in many of
Germany’s art museums and institutions. His work is also in numerous prestigious
private collections around the world. Marwan currently lives and works in Berlin.
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Ayman Baalbaki
(b.1975)
The Parliament
Signed (lower left)
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 250 cm
2014
Courtesty of the artist and Agial Gallery
$100,000 - 150,000
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Born in Odeisse, Lebanon in 1975, Baalbaki received his BA in Painting
from the Lebanese University in Beirut, in 1998, and later graduated from
the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. During the summer
of 2001, he joined the Academy in Darat Al-Funun, Amman, under the
supervision of the artist Marwan Kassab Bachi. Baalbaki exhibited in
Lebanon at the Agial Gallery with Transfiguration Apocalyptique and Ici et
D’ailleurs as well as Absence-Presence in 2002 at the Maison du Liban in
Paris. Since 1995 he has participated in numerous exhibitions, art shows
and biennales in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Nigeria, and Argentina.
Baalbaki has been awarded the prize of Fine Art by Young Artists of
Lebanon in Tripoli. He is a member of the Lebanese Artists’ Association.
APEAL MEMBERS
APEAL Mission Statement
The Association for the Promotion and Exhibition of the Arts in Lebanon (APEAL) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to showcasing and supporting Lebanese artists by taking their
work beyond conventional borders. The association encourages creativity in all its forms and
is committed to a belief in the transformative potential of art and access to culture.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Rita Nammour, President
Sandra Abou Nader, Vice-President
Nada El Khoury, Vice-President
Issam Shammas, Treasurer
Nada Al Assaad, Secretary
Nayla Al Assaad
Abraham Karabajakian
Zeina Karam
Ramez Shehade
Beirut Contemporary
APEAL is delighted to be developing Lebanon’s first museum for modern and contemporary
art. Beirut Contemporary will be a ground-breaking hub for art, holding a core collection
from Lebanon and across the region, as well as hosting multi-faceted exhibitions that
speak to global art contexts. Dynamic public programming will engage Beirut’s diverse
communities and international audience, and the museum will be dedicated to nurturing
the next generation of artistic and curatorial talent in the Middle-East. An independent
institution, Beirut Contemporary will be a site for discourse, creativity and public education,
in an inspiring building designed by one of Lebanon’s leading architecture houses.
Scholarships and Global Promotion of Lebanese Art
The foundation nurtures nascent Lebanese artists at University-level through its scholarship
fund, and sets up exchange programs between Lebanese artists and their counterparts from
colleges and art academies abroad. In so doing, APEAL broadens the horizons of Lebanese
artists, and connects and mobilizes an international network of artists and institutions.
APEAL has organized exhibitions in leading art world capitals, including Convergence: New
Art from Lebanon in Washington D.C., 2010 and Subtitled: with Narratives from Lebanon
in London, 2011. In 2013, APEAL pioneered Lebanon’s participation at the 55th Venice
Biennale in Italy, bringing to the Lebanese pavilion an installation by internationally-renowned
artist Akram Zaatari, entitled Letter to a Refusing Pilot.
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APEAL
The APEAL Pride Award is presented annually to an individual for outstanding achievement
and distinguished service in promoting Lebanese art and culture at home or abroad. APEAL
is proud to honor such exceptional individuals as Sylvia Agemian, curator of the Sursock
Museum, Christine Tohme, curator and founder of Ashkal Alwan, and Raymond Audi, patron
of the arts as well as chairman of the board and general manager of Bank Audi SAL – Audi
Saradar Group, Lebanon.
APEAL also commissions select artists for public art installations, stimulating and enriching
the country’s cultural fabric. Such public programming contributes to APEAL’s vision for a
vibrant and forward-thinking post-conflict society in Lebanon.
Support
APEAL’s project and programs are made possible through the generous contributions of
the organization’s friends and supporters, individual and institutional. APEAL is extremely
grateful for the ongoing support of its friends and community.
BOARD MEMBERS
Diane Abela
Samir Abillama
Taline Aynilian Boladian
Katarina Tarazi
Nora Boustany
Liliane Chammas Bridi
Maria Geagea Arida
Michele Haddad
Nina Idriss
Eli Khoury
APEAL USA
Rita Nammour, Chairperson
Thomas Abraham, President
Nina Idriss, Executive Vice
President / Treasurer
Sandra Ghosn Abounader, Vice
President / Secretary
Nora Boustany, Assistant Secretary
Marc Wertheeimer, Assistant
Secretary Claudia Audi, Director
Marc H. Malek, Director
Managing Director
Anna Ogden-Smith
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APEAL WISHES TO THANK…
APEAL WISHES TO THANK…
Université Saint-Joseph
Abniah
Rafik El-Khoury & Partners
Quantum Communications
Mrs. Nayla Saadé
For their faith in the “A Museum in the Making” project.
Their spirited support and deployment of resources have
been decisive and instrumental in letting the project take off.
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APEAL WISHES TO THANK…
The professional experts designated to develop
studies for the museum project:
The Artists
Dia Azzaoui Ayman Baalbaki
Oussama Baalbaki
Chaouki Chamoun
Nadim Karam
Marwan Kassab Bachi
Abdulrahman Katanani
Azadeh Köker
Jamil Molaeb
Nabil Nahas
Marwan Sahmarani
Akram Zaatari
The Artist Families
Christine Abboud
Anachar Basbous
Fadi Basbous
Elie Kanaan Family
The Galleries
Agial Gallery
Ayyam Gallery
Galerie Claude Lemand
Galerie Janine Rubeiz
Sfeir Semler Gallery
Galeri Zilberman
Private Collectors
KA collection
Nayla Saadé
… Who have generously offered artworks for the auction.
Art Reoriented for strategic planning and programming guideline.
Avesta Group for capital, operational and business planning.
El-Khoury Law-Firm for legal assistance and procedures.
RAA Ralph Applebaum Associates for institutional planning,
concept, and programming development.
Strategy & Co for feasibility studies.
All names by alphabetical order
All names by alphabetical order
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APEAL WISHES TO THANK…
APEAL WISHES TO THANK…
Sponsors and supporters for their considerate
contributions to the “A Museum in the Making” kickoff event.
Sponsors and supporters for their considerate
contributions to the “A Museum in the Making” kickoff event.
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APEAL WISHES TO THANK…
APEAL WISHES TO THANK…
Sponsors and supporters for their considerate
contributions to the “A Museum in the Making” kickoff event.
Sponsors and supporters for their considerate
contributions to the “A Museum in the Making” kickoff event.
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APEAL WISHES TO THANK…
Elena Anouti
Ziad Antar
Zeina Arida
Mirene Arsanios
Fady Aziz
Saleh Barakat
Sam Bardawil
Nadine Begdache
Gregory Buchakjian
Carla Chammas
Farid Chehab
Caline Chidiac
Samer Dada
Sandra Dagher
Rachel Dedman
Hana Elwell
Octavian Esanu
Omar Fakhoury
Mayssa Fattouh
Till Fellrath,
Nayla Geagea
Michael Geha
Massimiliano Gioni
Mia Habis
Pascal Hachem
Joana Hadjithomas
Nayla Hage Chahine
Nathalie Harb
Melanie Ide
Lamia Joreige
Nada Kano
Nadim Karam
Naila Kettaneh Kunig
Fadi Mansour
Marc Mouarkech
Rabih Mroué
César Nammour
Joe Namy
Naji Naufal
Nadim Noujeim
Elsy Oueiss
Jack Persekian
Venetia Porter
Rami Rafih
Omar Rajeh
Walid Sadek
Nour Salame
Léa Sédnaoui
Hanan Sayed Worrell
Kirsten Scheid
Georges Sfeir
Andrée Sfeir Semler
Mounira Al Solh
Lina Silisty
Christine Tohme
Paola Yacoub
Maya Zbib
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… Who contributed their precious time and shared valuable insights and recommendations
APEAL WISHES TO THANK…
All those who attended the “A Museum in the Making” launching event
A special tribute is paid to the late architect Mrs. Magda Chammas, whose first design
was an inspiration to the museum project very early on in the process. Her spirit lives
on through the realization of this dream.