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Basbous visited Henry Moore’s studio in 1972, a year in which modernist public sculptures were unveiled all over
Britain. Impressed by the British government’s support for the arts, he prevailed upon his own government to follow Britain’s example, taking the initiative himself by establishing his
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Gallery in Beirut. By 1960, aided by a scholarship from the French government, he was studying under the sculptor René Collmarini at L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Artes de Paris. The following year works by Basbous were exhibited in the
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