Live Auction 1233Modern & Contemporary Arab, Iranian & Turkish Art
Shafic Abboud (Lebanese, 1926-2004)
Lot 6 THE VIVIANE AND ROBERT DEBBAS COLLECTION

Shafic Abboud (Lebanese, 1926-2004)

Grande Chambre 3

Closed21 October 2014

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USD 293,000

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Shafic Abboud (Lebanese, 1926-2004)
Grande Chambre 3
signed 'Abboud' (lower right); signed, titled and dated '"Chambre 3" ABBOUD 87' (on the reverse)
tempera on canvas
63 x 63in. (160 x 160cm.)
Painted in 1987

Galerie Faris, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'I only stop when both colour and light match. I cannot escape from colour, it is my fate and nature - my eyes must have been dazzled forever. The impact between two colours creates light, but whether it be true or false, this "theory" does make me paint'.

(From the artist's notebook, May 1982; translated from French).