Georges Bahgoury - Artist Info

About Georges Bahgoury

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George Abdel Masih Al Bahgory
  • Biography

    George Abdel Masih Al Bahgoury or George Bahgoury (b. 1932)

    He is an Egyptian-French artist. An accomplished painter and sculptor, he is most famous as a caricaturist and political cartoonist.

    Bahgoury was born into a Coptic Christian family in Luxor, Upper Egypt in 1932. In 1955, he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek, Cairo, under the guidance of the Egyptian artist Hussein Bikar. In 1970, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris.

    His 30 year stay in Paris refined his talent in drawing, engraving, painting, sculpture, marionette art, novel writing, cinema and criticism. Upon a special invitation from the Society of Art Lovers in Paris, his works were selected t...

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