Elie Kanaan - Artist Info

About Elie Kanaan

  • Biography

    Elie Kanaan is a Lebanese painter who blossomed in a style blending figuration and abstraction with soft, deep colors. He moved to Paris in the late 1950s, traveled extensively throughout Europe and the world, and eventually settled back in Lebanon. In addition to his painting career, Kanaan also worked as a professor at the Lebanese University of Beirut and the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts.

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