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30 - Hassan EL GLAOUI (Morocco 1923 - 2018) Fantasia Gouache on i…
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Estimate €15,000 - €20,000
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Hassan EL GLAOUI (Morocco 1923 - 2018) Fantasia Gouache on isorel 74 x 104.5 cm Signed lower middle Hassan el Glaoui Painted before 1975. *** Gouache on hardboard (masonite), signed lower centre (29⅛ × 41⅛ in.). Painted before 1975 The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the El Glaoui family. A certificate may be issued at the buyer's expense. Provenance Private Franco-Spanish collection; gift from the artist on the occasion of the current owner's wedding, 1975. "The fantasia is not a show: it is a memory that gallops along, a song of dust and fire. Ahmed Sefrioui, in Le Maroc des peintres, Casablanca, 1987. Born into a large family of Berber warriors from the Atlas mountains, Hassan El Glaoui was the eldest son of the last pasha of Morocco, Thami, and of Lalla Zineb El Mokri, daughter of the grand vizier El Mokri. A pioneer of modern painting in his country, he was immersed from an early age in a world of ancestral traditions, from which he escaped through drawing and painting. He cultivated his taste for the arts in secret, for fear of family judgement, until the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and the founder of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, General Goodyear, discovered his work and encouraged him to pursue it. Hassan El Glaoui was sent to France at the end of the 1940s, where he stayed for around fifteen years. He attended Jean Souverbie's classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as the studio of the painter Emilie Charmy. His first solo exhibition was in Paris in 1950, followed by one in New York in 1952. In 1957, he took part in the 2nd Alexandria Biennial and in 1963 in the exhibition "Two thousand years of art in Morocco" at the Charpentier gallery in Paris. In 1964, after a meeting with Prince Moulay Abdallah, he settled permanently in Morocco. His most emblematic works depict horses and riders in full cavalcade, particularly at fantasias. Horses were a passion for El Glaoui, and he mastered their anatomy and movement. In addition, his father's role and function made him a privileged witness to the public life of the court, and in particular the King, whose public outings he depicted.
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