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26 - Ahmed LOUARDIRI (Salé, 1928 - 1974) Chleuh Music Oil on pane…
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Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
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Ahmed LOUARDIRI (Salé, 1928 - 1974) Chleuh Music Oil on panel 98 x 75 cm Signed lower middle AHMED LOUARDIRI; label on back: "Ahmed Louardiri, Artiste peintre, Nouveau Mallah n° 5, Salé" with title, dimensions and price. *** Oil on panel, signed lower centre; label on the reverse with title, dimensions and price (38⅝ × 29½ in.) Painted in the early 1960's. Provenance Acquired in the early 1960s directly from the artist by Christian Raffaëli (receipt signed by the artist and authenticated by M. de Roquette-Buisson); then by descent. "The girl in question is a Chleuh - she was singing in the forest and the young man had heard her - he really liked the sound and gave her a present of a carpet and a vase". Produced in the early 1960s, this oil belongs to the seminal period when Louardiri was developing an autonomous pictorial language, nourished by Moroccan storytelling and oral traditions. Still little-known a few years earlier, the artist had his first institutional exposure - in Rabat in 1961, then through several exhibitions in 1963 in different Moroccan cities - and critics emphasised the singularity of his visual language, born of a direct relationship with popular tradition and the imaginary world of storytelling. The composition revolves around a large central vase - the visual and symbolic pivot of the scene the artist himself describes: a young Chleuh woman was singing in the forest; the young man, seduced by her voice, offered her a carpet and a vase in exchange. The two figures face each other in a space saturated with stylised floral motifs. Here, the artist displays his instinctive sense of composition and balance, his abundant imagination nourished by references to nature - a legacy of his years as a gardener.
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About the sale Arab, African & Indian Modernities
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Auction time 06/18/2026 at 2:30 PM
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