Mr ISKANDAR SAFA
a great gentleman, passionate collector has passed away, following a painful illness.
Without knowing each other, we shared the friendship of the murdered President of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel. We had traveled, without knowing each other, the same moments of war, that of 1976, at the height of the survival issue for the Christian community of Lebanon.
And it was in the activity of the Hôtel des Ventes de Monte Carlo that we finally met.
The Cherbourg shipyards, the Mandelieu golf course, Valeurs Actuelles, the list is not exhaustive of his activism in the business world...but his eclectic passion for the art of all periods and his encouragement for contemporary artists, notably sculptors, will remain alive in our memories. May he now reach the peaks of Mount Lebanon... where Saint Charbel awaits him.
Franck Baille
President of the Monte Carlo Auction House