Riad Beyrouti

Riad Beyrouti (Arabic: ریاض بیروتي‎; born 6 May 1944 in Damascus – died 4 November 2019 in Honfleur, France) was a Syrian painter. He lived in Lower Normandy from 1969 until his death.

Riad Beyrouti in 2006

Biography

Riad Beyrouti graduated from the Damascus National School of Fine Arts, where he had majored in sculpture. He moved to France in 1969 and attended l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, majoring in sculpture. César Baldaccini was in charge of the sculpture department at that time.

Beyrouti took part in various exhibitions in Caen[1] and Honfleur.[2]

Works
  • Sculpture
  • Monochrome
  • Oil on canvas
  • Ink on paper

Sculpture
  • Platon, 1968
  • Man And Time, 1968

Painting
  • Ink painting
  • Oil painting

Pricing

An ink painting on paper (54x58 cm) was acquired by the Lower Normandy region on 24 February 1984 at the price of 7200 Frs.[3]

References
  1. (in French)Salon des artistes bas-normands au Sépulcre, Ouest-France, Nov 1997
  2. (in French)Deuxième Exposition Européenne d'Art Vivant, Bulletin d'information municipale №8 de la ville de Honfleur, Jul 2010
  3. (in French)Web Site of the "FRAC de Basse-Normandie"
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