“One can hear music while looking at my artwork.”

Amine El Bacha (1932 to 2019) was born in the Ras al-Nabaa neighborhood of Beirut. He studied under César Gemayel, Jean-Paul Khoury, and Fernando Manetti at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts from 1954 to 1957, before receiving a scholarship to continue his studies in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and La Grande Chaumière under Henri Goetz. In Paris, his figurative style began to shift toward expressionism, developing a body of work rooted in Lebanese themes and rendered with a musician’s sense of rhythm and color. Beyond painting, he worked across watercolor, ceramics, tapestry, and jewelry, and illustrated poetry collections by Alain Jouffroy and the Lebanese poet Nadia Tueni.