HANIBAL SROUJI (LEBANESE B. 1957)
Terre-Mer
signed in English and Arabic Hanibal Srouji and numbered 3/3 (on reverse); published by TEAL EDITIONS
pigmented giclée on canvas, framed
99 x 61 cm (39 x 24 in)
sold with a certificate of authenticity stamped by TEAL EDITIONS

Hanibal Srouji was born in Lebanon in 1957. During the Lebanese civil war, he worked as a Red Cross volunteer before fleeing to Canada in 1976. Here he obtained a BA in Social Science, and both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Fine Arts. Srouji’s experience of the war was a great source of inspiration for his art. Srouji’s Terre-Mer is composed of loose, impressionistic washes of colour, which create an abstracted landscape of sea and land. The vertical perspective alludes to Chinese landscape paintings and Islamic miniatures.