Artist: Hussein Madi
Title: Abstract Composition
Year: 2011
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 150 × 100 cm

Abstract Composition, 2011

Courtesy of Mark Hachem Gallery

Hussein Madi

Hussein Madi, painter, sculptor and engraver, is one of the Middle East’s most famous artists. Between 1958 and 1962, he studied painting at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in Beirut before moving to Rome in 1963 to continue his studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti. He arrived in Rome for two months and stayed for 22 years!

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Mazen & Loulia Soueid Private Collection

Mazen and Loulia Soueid are Lebanese collectors who have collected the work of Middle Eastern artists for over 20 years. Mazen, an economist and an entrepreneur is also the founding Chairman of TEAL EDITIONS; and Loulia an artist have a collection spanning over 300 works from pioneering figures of modernism and the contemporary era.