Farid Mansour - Sculptor & Painter
1929 - 2010
“In 1977 (the beginnings of the Lebanese civil war) I decided to return to Beirut leaving behind me all my successes I started to harvest in London including British citizenship. I decided to return hoping that through my art and my plume I can participate in shaping an evolved society within a country where justice and equality rule. I decided to return now lest I would be shocked should I return later on, to find a country strange to me, a country that does not resemble me and a society with no intellectual and artistic culture, a country driven solely by materialistic motives and primitive instincts”
Farid Mansour
"Mansour, Farid Lebanese , 20th century , male . Born 1929 , in Beirut . Painter , watercolourist , draughtsman . Figures, scenes with figures. Farid Mansour started his training at the Lebanese academy of fine arts in 1946 , and had private classes with the Italian painter Fernando Manetti until 1949 . From 1961 to 1963 he studied in Italy. From 1969 to 1973 he studied painting, sculpture and engraving at the City and Guilds of London Art School, and also studied art history there. He worked as a sculptor at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum until 1977"
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