A life
in colour.
A Lebanese artist. An extraordinary eye.
A world that continues to move us.
The music of a gathering.
The quiet of a mountain.
The colour of being alive.
Wahib Bteddini’s work moves between the landscapes of Lebanon, the intimacy of everyday life and the freedom of modern painting. Each canvas offers another way of seeing.
Many worlds.
One vision.
Follow a colour. Find a story.
Stay with what moves you.
THE FLOWER FIELD · PAINTING DETAIL
WAHIB BTEDDINI / 1929–2011An artist’s eye.
A lasting presence.
Painter, sculptor and teacher, Wahib Bteddini made the world around him the subject of a lifelong artistic practice.
He studied painting and mural art at the Surikov Institute in Moscow and taught at the Lebanese University’s Institute of Fine Arts. His work embraces the familiar and the imagined, from village gatherings to figures shaped by pure colour.
Explore his life ↗
Beyond
the canvas.
Photographs, words and traces of a creative life.
An invitation to know the person behind the work.
“No Art without Talent,
and no Talent
without Art.”
Wahib Bteddini
From the family’s 2012 commemorative brochure
▷In his
own words.
A conversation about art, in the artist’s own voice. Explore excerpts from the interview archive, organised by subject.
Watch the conversations ↗A memory.
A question.
A connection.
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