Georges Hanna Sabbagh

Georges Hanna Sabbagh (1877–1951) was an Egyptian-born French visual artist and teacher, of Syrian and Lebanese heritage.

It can be said that he was attached to the artists of the Paris School, he worked beside Amedeo Modigliani but he always refused to be considered one of them, keeping his independence and freedom.

[2] His family and the region of Brittany (where his children were born) provided him with subjects for many of his paintings, before trips to Egypt led him to rediscover the lights, landscapes and characters of his childhood.

A painter of talent, Georges Sabbagh forms one of the group of artists who Jean Cassou called "the sacrificed generation" (along with Henri de Waroquier and Jules-Émile Zingg) - absorbing the school of Les Nabis, Fauvism and Cubism at the beginning of the century, but forgotten after the Second World War.

[2] After his death, his son Jean and daughter-in-law Monique made a retrospective exhibition of his work, and an art catalogue.