Oil on canvas
58 x 74 cm (22.8 x 29.1 in.)
Executed in the very early sixties
Signed on the lower right

 Provenance: Private collection of Mr Joseph Tarrab who bought it from Mr Alain Tasso the heir of Dr Tasso
                       the first owner
 

Untitled or Stormy Weather over the Bekaa Valley shows the recurrent influence of Cezanne in this work. The picture is constructed with juxtaposed areas of dark, leaden color, and perspective is suggested not in line but chromatically, à la Cezanne, using the passage from one plane of color to another to create depth. This windswept landscape crushed beneath a stormy sky is characteristic of the dramatized, violent Romanticism of many of Charaf's landscape.