« Here is an artist who loves thick paint, thereby creating relief. Using a palette knife, with long strokes, he glorifies the natural Mediterranean scenery. He loves its light, its cheerful and exhilarating colours, occasionally tempered by the intense sunlight.

Although he had lived in France for over 30 years and enjoyed its charms, deep in his soul he had kept the memory of his sunny Lebanon which he rediscovered in the ports and countryside of the south of France » (Extract from an article by Anne Mauriac in L'univers des Arts).

Born in Beirut in Lebanon in January 1944, Robert Messarra passed away in October 1012 in the south of France.