Live Auction 1233Modern & Contemporary Arab, Iranian & Turkish Art
Shafic Abboud (Lebanese, 1926-2004)
Lot 2 THE VIVIANE AND ROBERT DEBBAS COLLECTION

Shafic Abboud (Lebanese, 1926-2004)

Histoires

Closed21 October 2014

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USD 389,000

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Shafic Abboud (Lebanese, 1926-2004)
Histoires
signed 'Abboud' (lower right); signed and dated 'ABBOUD 1976' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
51 1/8 x 76 3/8in. (130 x 194cm.)
Painted in 1976

Galerie Brigitte Schéhadé, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'Between simplification and the outpourings that are the two paths of abstract painting, Abboud offers another approach to reality that is fusion. It might be said in a rather drastic way that he does not perceive reality, but that he dives into it, wallows in it, merges with it to such an extent that when he brings it back to us filtered through his desire, it has simultaneously been dissolved and reconstituted according to harmonic laws inside which, to quote the poet, "Perfumes, colours and sounds answer each other".'

(P. Waldberg, in C. Lemand (ed.), Shafic Abboud, Paris 2006, pp. 349-350).