Parallel
to the Fall Exhibition, but only since the nineties, the museum added to its
program tributes to great deceased
Lebanese artists. The tributes are set in the form of retrospectives which tend
to define or redefine these artists' place
and role in the history of the Lebanese art.
Their great merit is to allow the
largest number of people to have access to the pieces to the pieces that are
often scattered in private collections.
It is worth mentioning in this respect that the one hundred
fifty-three paintings which depicted in 1992 the pictorial adventure of Jean
Khalifé (1925-1978) came from forty-four different collections.
In 1997, forty collectors accepted as well to part with their
paintings in order to represent, stage by stage, Omar Onsi's (1901-1969) long career by means of two hundred and fifty-six oil paintings and
watercolors. This last exhibition broke the record of visits as it attracted, in
two months, more than seventy thousands visitors.
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