Alfred Basbous

Alfred Basbous (28 December 1924 – 1 January 2006) was a Lebanese modernist artist and sculptor.

His works are often abstract or figurative variations on the female body, notable for their fluidity of form.

Drawing from a diverse range of sources, including works by Henry Moore, Jean Arp, and Constantin Brâncuși, Basbous worked with marble, bronze, and stone to express what he saw as the simple essence of the human form, divesting it any embellishments he considered frivolous or meaningless. His works also display the influence of Phoenician culture, Lebanese folk art, and Christian Maronite Church iconography.

Basbous gave his first exhibition in 1958 at the Alecco Saab 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 International Sculpture Exhibition at the Musée Rodin in Paris.