PAUL GUIRAGOSSIAN (LEBANESE, 1926-1993)
PAUL GUIRAGOSSIAN (LEBANESE, 1926-1993)

Composition

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PAUL GUIRAGOSSIAN (LEBANESE, 1926-1993)
Composition
signed 'PAUL.G.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
47¼ x 39½in. (120 x 100cm.)
Painted in the 1980s

Lot Essay

This is an unusually fine example of Guiragossian's later work. Compared to the previous lot, the canvas is crowded with vertical lines, elongated arabesques which powerfully evoke, through a remarkable restriction of means, a dense group of human beings. The rich colours bring a rhythm and because they are faceless, the purged bodies carry the expression.

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