NOW AND TEN

PROPERTY FROM
THE ARTIST’S ESTATE
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SHAFIC ABBOUD
(LEBANESE, 1926-2004)
Café Hajj Daoud, Café Al Bahrein, Café Palestine,
Café de Verre (from Les Cafés Engloutis series)
each: numbered (on the reverse)
tempera on panel, in 130 parts
each: 4æ x 6ºin. (12 x 16cm.);
overall: 47º x 81√in. (120 x 208cm.)
Painted in 1990
US$300,000-400,000
AED1,100,000-1,500,000
PROVENANCE:
The Artist’s Estate.
EXHIBITED:
Beirut, Beirut Exhibition Centre, Retrospective Shafc Abboud,
2012 (Café Hajj Daoud, Café Palestine & Café de Verre exhibited).
LITERATURE:
P. Le Thorel, Shafc Abboud, Milan 2014 (partly illustrated in
colour, p. 172).
This work is sold with four photo-certifcates from Christine
Abboud numbered ID1860, ID1861, ID1862 & ID1863.
Detail of the present work hanging in Shafc Abboud’s bedroom in his
apartment near Parc Montsouris, Paris, circa 2000.
Courtesy Claude Lemand, Paris.
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