BEIRUT DRAWINGS GALLERY |
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| The135 drawings made by Frenkiel in Beirut between 1944- 1947 are the work of a young man, highly susceptible to the singular experiences which had been thrust upon him, and one who had already known, far more fully than most ever do, the whole spectrum of human predicament. The art of Stanislaw Frenkiel was then fired - as it was ever since - by a burning curiosity, the minute curiosity of a novelist, concerning matters of human psychology. This propensity, coupled with the very sharpest attention to idiosyncracies of appearance, accounts for the sheer conviction of every one of these drawings, however abbreviated. It was a wise decision of the artist, willingly complied with by Dr Bushra Fakoury, the present owner, to keep the works together as a complete collection. |
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