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220 - Fatna GBOURI (1924–2012)
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Estimate €600 - €800
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Fatna GBOURI (1924–2012) Wedding Scene Oil on canvas Signed on the canvas and countersigned on the reverse. 40 x 50 cm Fatna Gbouri was born in 1924 in Tnine El Gharbia, in a rural area of the province of Safi. Fatna Gbouri grew up in an environment deeply shaped by the traditions and way of life of rural Morocco. Like many women in her community, she initially devoted herself to weaving and agricultural work. Her relationship with artistic creation thus developed long before she began to paint. It was not until 1984, when she was 59 years old, that Gbouri truly turned to painting. She was notably encouraged in this direction by her son, the painter Ahmed Mjidaoui. Having received no formal artistic training, she developed a personal pictorial language, drawing on her memories, her experience and her observations of everyday life. This spontaneous approach helped to give her work a distinctive character, closely linked to the Moroccan imagination and folk traditions. Her pictorial world is characterised by a particularly vibrant colour palette and a wealth of detail. Gbouri mainly depicts scenes inspired by rural life and the social customs of her time. The figures, often dressed in traditional attire, form the heart of her compositions. Through them, the artist evokes various moments in community life: festivals and weddings, births, agricultural work, milking livestock, and even local ceremonies and gatherings. Her paintings thus offer a vivid and heart-warming glimpse into a daily life steeped in customs and community values. Recognition of her work came swiftly after she began painting. In 1986, she took part in her first group exhibition, held in Meknes. Three years later, in 1989, she presented her work in her first solo exhibition in Rabat. Her reputation gradually spread beyond Morocco’s borders and her works were subsequently shown in various countries across Europe and the Middle East, notably in France, Germany and the United Arab Emirates. Fatna Gbouri passed away in 2012, aged 88. She left behind a deeply personal body of work, in which colour, characters and scenes from everyday life bear witness to a profound attachment to Moroccan culture. Through her unique perspective on rural life and folk traditions, she helped to preserve and raise awareness, through her paintings, of an entire cultural and social world.
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About the sale Naïve Art & Small Modern Paintings from the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Auction time 09/29/2026 at 2:00 PM
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