Alfred Basbous

Alfred Basbous was born in the village of Rachana, Lebanon in 1924. He held his first solo exhibition at Galerie Alecco Saab in Beirut. In 1960, he received a scholarship to study at L’École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he trained with the sculptor René Collamarini. His works were included in the International Sculpture Exhibition at the Musée Rodin in Paris in 1961. He won several awards, including the “Prix de L’Orient” in Beirut in 1963, Sursock Museum’s Salon d’Automne prize in 1964 and 1965, the Alexandria Biennale prize in 1974, and a posthumous gold medal from the Lebanese Order of Merit. From 1994 to 2004, Basbous organized the annual International Symposium of Sculpture in Rachana. His works feature in the collections of the Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut; the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Musée Rodin, Paris.

Basbous's art is present today in several public and private collections: The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Hakoni Open-Air museum in Japan, the Rodin museum in Paris, as well as the Villa Audi, the Sursock Museum and the Parliament in Lebanon, and the Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi.