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Moustafa Farroukh (Arabic: مصطفى فروخ; 1901 – 1957) was one of Lebanon's most prominent painters of the 20th century. During his famed career, Farroukh produced over 2000 paintings most of which were acquired by collectors both in Lebanon and abroad.

He also wrote five books including a biography.

Career

He was formally trained in Rome and graduated in 1927 from Rome's Royal College of Fine Arts.

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By playing on the ambiguity of the Arabic term rasm, which can mean both painting and drawing, he concluded that there was no reason to believe.

The artist was born in Beirut in , studied at the Royal College of Fine Arts in Rome, graduating in He then moved to Paris where he studied under a.

Moustafa Farroukh was born in Beirut in , taking illustrating jobs starting as young as fifteen years old.

As an artist who studied in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, and an academic whose intellectual contribution to the development of Lebanese art was profound.

He proceeded to Paris and continued further studies under the guidance of Paul Émile Chabas, the president of the Society of French Artists and many other French artists.

Over his prosperous career, he exhibited in venues from Paris, Venice, New York City and Beirut.

In his Studio in Beirut, he established a permanent exhibition of his artwork in 1932.

His work was applauded for its representation of real life in Lebanon in pictures of the country, its people and its customs. He travelled through Spain in the early 1930s where his appreciation of Arabic a