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paintings - 5,000 francs for an allegory, 1,000 for a portrait and around 200 francs for a landscape. However, the landscapes were more popular with the
Lebanese elites, and Onsi soon began producing landscapes in much greater numbers and began charging higher prices for them. Before long, he was receiving an average price of 500 francs for a landscape. The local press quickly touted him as a skilled
199:(Qaisarr Jumayil) (1898–1958), Saliba Douaihy (Saliba Duwaihi) (born 1915) and Rachid Wehbi (Rachid Wahbah) (born 1917), Osni is regarded as a pioneer, having laid the foundations for a modern arts movement in Lebanon. These artists established an originality and freedom of expression that had never before been seen in Lebanon.
214:(al-manazir al tabi'iyya) in which he strove to remove "traces of himself as a rationalizing being and to react unselfconsciously with sure draughtsmanship, direct brushwork, and heightened sensitivity to optical effects." He spent hours engaged in observation before rendering a graphic version of a subject. His painting,
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He held his first solo exhibition at the School of Arts and Crafts in Beirut in 1932. At that time, the market for
Western-influenced art was emerging as the educated middle-classes and elites began to purchase works by local artists. From the outset, Onsi charged relatively high prices for his
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and a French second wife. From then on, his work focused on the
Lebanese landscape. A Lebanese woman, known simply as Grandma Kamal, visited Onsi at his Tallet Al-Khayat property in the late 1930s, and recalled that there were many gazelles roaming about. Gazelles featured prominently in his
146:. His career subsequently benefited from the patronage of the Jordanian King. The discovery of the desert and its colours during this stay in Amman had a major influence on his work. During this time, he also documented the indigenous peoples, both ethnographically and visually.
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Onsi continued to travel throughout he 1940s and 50s, and exhibited his work in
Germany, Spain, Italy, and Egypt. He died on 3 June 1969 in Beirut, after suffering from stomach cancer.
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and different workshops. During that period, Onsi focused on painting portraits, nudes, and
Parisian scenery. While in Paris, he met the painter, Georges Cyr and the sculptor,
218:, is said to be the finest example of his style. He worked in pencil, watercolour, oil and occasionally in clay and bronze, although few of his figurines are extant.
753:, Routledge, 2005, , n.p.; the authors note that the average price of his landscapes (500 francs) was equivalent to a month's salary for a middle-class professional.
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149:In 1928, Onsi went to
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