Paul Guiragossian: 100 Years of Art is a solo exhibition at the Bassam Freiha Art Foundation on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, open from 17 October 2026 to 17 January 2027. It marks a century since the painter's birth in 1926. Oil paintings on canvas and Masonite, drawn mostly from his estate, hang beside archival photographs and personal papers.

Guiragossian's parents were Armenians who survived the genocide of 1915. He was born in Jerusalem, and the family later moved from Jaffa to Lebanon. He settled in Beirut, where he died in 1993. The show was developed with the Paul Guiragossian Foundation, which his wife and children set up in 2011. Its co-curators are his daughter, Manuella Guiragossian, and Michaela Watrelot, Head Curator of the Bassam Freiha Art Foundation.

The hang runs in order of date. Self-portraits from his early years open the show, beside portraits of his mother, Rahel; one self-portrait, in oil on canvas, dates from 1948. Paintings of his wife, Juliette, and of Manuella also feature. Juliette et Mano (1955) and Femmes en Conversation (1951) are both oil on Masonite. In L'Étreinte (1973), a girl runs into her mother's arms. Later canvases include Silence (1968), 165 by 120 cm, and Pourpre (circa 1986). By his last decade the figures had stretched into tall, thin silhouettes.

Archival photographs and documents, many seldom shown, follow the three women who shaped his life and work: his mother, his wife and Manuella, who now looks after his legacy. The exhibition ends with paintings from his last years. According to the foundation, most of the works have never left Lebanon before. The show is the largest of three in the foundation's season, From a Shared Ground.