GEORGE MAKHOUL COLLECTION

Born in 1966 in Beirut, Lebanon, of Syrian descent, Georges Makhoul is the CEO of Constellation Holdings, a Dubai-based private investment firm.

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He is a patron of Art Dubai and the collection, he and his wife have built over the past 20 years, around 350 artworks, is maintained at his home in Dubai.

They started to collect art seriously while living in Tokyo, Japan in 1996 and gradually transitioned into collecting Middle Eastern modern art in1998.

One of their first purchases from this genre was by the Syrian artist Fateh Moudarres entitled “Peasant Women from Aleppo” .Makhoul notes, that by presenting the ordinary Syrian peasant, “Some one who either can not speak their mind or can not see what is going on around them, is a silent but strong message that reflects the state of the ordinary Syrian,” he says.

Artworks from Moudarres and Louay Kayyali, another eminent Syrian…