46 - EMMANUEL GUIRAGOSSIAN (LEBANESE B.1954)

EMMANUEL GUIRAGOSSIAN (LEBANESE B.1954) UNTITLED signed Emmanuel Guiragossian lower right oil on canvas 79.9 x 59.8cm (86.9 x 67.1cm framed) Property from a Private Collection, London Provenance Acquired in the early 1980's Thence by descent to the present owner Emmanuel Guiragossian is a celebrated Lebanese-German painter, sculptor, and multi-disciplinary artist of Armenian descent. Born into a legendary six-generation lineage of iconographers and painters, he is the eldest son of the master painter Paul Guiragossian. His childhood was deeply shaped by his grandmother’s harrowing first-hand accounts of surviving the Armenian Genocide, instilling an early sense of drama and urgency in his creative consciousness. After studying fine arts at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he became a professor in Beirut, founded the contemporary art space and publishing house EMMAGOSS, and curated his family's museum legacy. Today, he lives and works between Lebanon and Germany. Guiragossian’s work uses a highly emotive figurative style to explore personal trauma, collective history, and human resilience . His canvases frequently feature simplified, silhouetted human figures and majestic horses that lean into and intertwine with one another, symbolising a vital need for mutual support, solace, and survival. Balancing structural turbulence with a vibrant, pulsating colour palette, Guiragossian transforms historical tragedy into a universal celebration of the enduring human spirit.