Jean Khalifeh, self-portrait. A private work dedicated to Odette, his wife.(Credit: Courtesy of the Jean Khalifeh Foundation and the Mark Hachem gallery)
One evening in 1976, while he was working late in his studio in Zouk Mosbeh, two armed militiamen broke in and stationed themselves beside him all night, watching for their enemies to pass by… At dawn, once they left, Jean Khalifeh immediately set about painting "La peur" (Fear), the first of a series of three canvases of the same size in which he expressed this traumatic experience through distorted faces with bulging eyes.The Lebanese Civil War, which had begun the previous year, thus burst into the abstract painter’s work, lending the pieces from his final period the tragic intensity of despair.Jean Khalifeh posing in front of one of his large canvases in 1972. (Credit: Courtesy of the Jean Khalifeh Foundation) Shocked and shaken by the horrors of combat, Khalifeh partially returned to figuration, which he had entirely...
One evening in 1976, while he was working late in his studio in Zouk Mosbeh, two armed militiamen broke in and stationed themselves beside him all night, watching for their enemies to pass by… At dawn, once they left, Jean Khalifeh immediately set about painting "La peur" (Fear), the first of a series of three canvases of the same size in which he expressed this traumatic experience through distorted faces with bulging eyes.The Lebanese Civil War, which had begun the previous year, thus burst into the abstract painter’s work, lending the pieces from his final period the tragic intensity of despair.Jean Khalifeh posing in front of one of his large canvases in 1972. (Credit: Courtesy of the Jean Khalifeh Foundation) Shocked and shaken by the horrors of combat, Khalifeh partially returned to figuration, which he had entirely...
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