
Noor Soussi
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£20,000 - £30,000

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Provenance:
Property from a distinguished private collection, Beirut
"This painting of Mar Gerges Church in Ehden belongs to the fascinating pre-transitional period in Douaihy's practice, when he was beginning to move away from classical realism toward a more impressionistic language. In this phase, precision and definition gradually gave way to a greater focus on form and colour, with detail deliberately loosened and shapes assuming compositional priority. It marks the very cusp of his stylistic evolution—by the 1950s, this exploration would lead Douaihy decisively into abstraction."