Private Collection, Beirut. A Certificate of Authenticity accompanies the work.
Lot 33
Beirut
2016
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$8,000 - $12,000
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Beirut, Lebanon
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ABOUT Oussama Baalbaki
Early Life and EducationBorn in Beirut, Oussama Baalbaki is an award-winning Lebanese painter who was born into a family of talented musicians and visual artists. The son of the artist and writer Abdul Hamid Baalbaki, he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts, Lebanese University, receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in...
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“There is one fundamental question which pervades the entirety of Oussama Baalbaki’s work to date: what is the place of painting after photography? Baalbaki’s paintings are expressionistic in tone, but they tend toward the mimetic. To represent reality today, he paints with the recognition of the technologically reproducible, mediated image. If photography attempts to capture the perpetually fleeting present – to embalm reality – painting stretches its duration, so as to free it from the constraints of historical time.”
- Saleh Barakat, Agial Gallery
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