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This book Kahlil Gibran - Horizons of the Painter, done with the collaboration of Nicolas Sursock Museum, Beirut, is a wonderful and instructive book for all Lebanese who which to have in their residence and library a unique book showing the complete collection of the paintings of Kahlil Gibran, the true Lebanese heritage...

Characteristic of the book:
-Size, 21 x 21 cm
-Number of pages, 166 pages
-Showing more than 180 paintings of Gibran with, Title, Date, Technique, Size, Information about the signature, Number of room where the art work is located in Gibran Museum, Extracts of texts.

Titles of the paintings are taken from the original titles given by Gibran or, sometimes, by Mary Haskell, which were found in Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran. ed. A. Knopf, 1919, or in brochures of his exhibitions, or in articles that appeared in the press when such exhibitions were held, as well as in the Gibran-Mary Haskell correspondence. Other titles are mostly those assigned by Mr. Wahib Kayrouz in Gibran in His Museum, 2nd ed. 1997 and Gibran Museum, 2nd ed. 1999.

Several commentaries appeared in the margins of the book and they were taken almost exclusively from the correspondence between Kahlil Gibran (K.G.) and Mary Haskell (M.H.) as well as from Mary Haskell's Diary, in which she has recorded Gibran's observations during their meetings.

Consulted sources: Annie Salem Otto, ed: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, Houston, Texas, 1970; Virginia Hilu, ed: Beloved Prophet. The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell and her Private Journal, New York, 1972; as well as Kahlil Gibran. His Life and World by Jean Gibran and Kahlil Gibran, Boston - New York, 1974.

The Gibran Museum in Bsharri consists of different rooms where each work has been given a number, all noted here in the Catalogue.

Scenography:
Jean-Louis Mainguy

Catalogue:
Design and Layout, Cro-Magnon design studio

Photographs:
Milad Tawk

Printing:
Joseph D. Raidy Printing Press

Edited with Sylvia Agémian

Acknowledgments:

Mrs. Sonia Frangié Racy
Mr. Joseph Raidy
Inaash Bank
Near East Commercial Bank
Banque Libanaise pour le Commerce
Intercontinental Bank

>>>Extracts from the book<<<

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