Overview
- Mansour, who died on Monday, 24 August 2026, was 79 and his family announced the death on Instagram.
- A funeral was held in his hometown of Birzeit on Wednesday, 26 August, and museums and cultural groups have held ongoing tributes.
- He helped build Palestinian art institutions, cofounding the League of Palestinian Artists in 1973 and later the New Visions group with Vera Tamari, Tayseer Barakat and Nabil Anani, a collective reported variably as founded in 1987 or 1989.
- Mansour promoted self-reliant practices using mud, henna, straw, coffee and other local materials and painted public murals, including a large 2024 work at the Palestinian Museum for which he requested a fig tree instead of payment.
- His paintings and prints are in major international collections and he won regional awards such as the 2019 UNESCO‑Sharjah Prize, and his death is likely to prompt more retrospectives, scholarship and public programming that focus on Palestinian memory and access to art.