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24 - Ahmed LOUARDIRI (Salé, 1928 - 1974) Vase in bloom Oil on pan…
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Estimate €4,000 - €6,000
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Ahmed LOUARDIRI (Salé, 1928 - 1974) Vase in bloom Oil on panel 71 x 35 cm Signed lower right A. Louardiri; countersigned on the back A. Louardiri and dedicated to Mrs Battistini. *** Oil on panel, signed lower right ; signed on the reverse and dedicated to Mme Battistini (28 × 13¾ in.). Painted circa 1965. Provenance Collection Nourdine Cherkaoui, Paris; given by the artist to his maternal grandmother, Aimée Battistini (1911-1989), then by descent. The transmission of this work from Louardiri to Aimée Battistini is not simply a family gesture: it unites several figures of international artistic modernity linked by the same Parisian milieu. Aimée Battistini (1916-1989), a Venezuelan-born painter of Corsican origin, began training in Paris at the Académie Julian in 1928. In the capital, her studio became the home of the Los Disidentes group - a collective of abstract Venezuelan painters including Alejandro Otero and Jesús Rafael Soto - and in 1953 she took part in an exhibition at the Denise René gallery. As Ludmila's mother and Ahmed Cherkaoui's wife, she was at the heart of the artistic circle that united the two Moroccan painters. Gaston Diehl - critic and cultural director of the Mission Universitaire et Culturelle Française au Maroc - devoted booklets to both Louardiri and Cherkaoui in his collection Art Moderne Maroc (Imframar, ca. 1963), several copies of which are included in this sale, and also documented the work of Battistini (El arte en Venezuela en los años 50, 2001).
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Auction time 06/18/2026 at 2:30 PM
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