Galerie Claude Lemand

Catalogue : https://www.claude-lemand.com/IMG/pdf/cat­a­logue_ret­ro­spec­tive_shafic_abboud_light2-3.pdf
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I have great admi­ra­tion for the art of Shafic Abboud and a faithful affec­tion for his person. I am happy and proud to have been able to keep the double promise that I made to him shortly before his death on April 8, 2004: to pub­lish his first mono­graph in 2006 and, in 2011, to orga­nize in France the most impor­tant ret­ro­spec­tive of his work at the Institut du monde arabe. And here I am once again happy and proud to be able to cel­e­brate his memory and his art, on the occa­sion of the cen­te­nary of his birth. With the sup­port of his most loyal friends and col­lec­tors, I hope to live up to the mis­sion entrusted to me by Christine Abboud, his only daughter, who granted me the exclu­sive inter­na­tional dis­tri­bu­tion of her father’s col­lec­tion, in order to con­tribute to high­lighting his per­son­ality and his emi­nent place in the his­tory of art. A choice of the most rep­re­sen­ta­tive paint­ings from this were exhib­ited at Art Paris 2025 by the Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.