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Tibari KANTOUR (Casablanca born 1954)
The tree, spices 2003
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49
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Tibari KANTOUR (Casablanca born 1954)
The tree, spices 2003
…
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
Tibari KANTOUR (Casablanca born 1954)
The tree, spices 2003
Two mixed techniques on vegetable paper
38 x 47 cm
Signed in Arabic and Latin letters, and dated Tibari Kantour 2003.
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Two mixed media works on vegetal paper, each signed in Arabic and Latin script and dated (each 15 × 18½ in.) Painted in 2003.
Provenance
French private collection, donated by the artist in 2004.
Bibliography
Reproduced in the exhibition catalogue Tibari Kantour , L'Arbre, Institut Français de Marrakech, 2003.
Since the late 1980s, Tibari Kantour has been developing a body of work deeply rooted in matter and gesture. After making a name for himself in Belgium, he began exhibiting in Rabat at Pauline de Mazières' L'Atelier gallery in 1989, attracting attention for a rare practice: that of an artist who makes his own media, including paper, from plant fibres, which he grinds, presses and dries using a demanding craft process. This direct relationship with the material is at the heart of his work. Kantour's world unfolds like an 'inner landscape', where the leaf becomes a metaphor for the living. The thick, fibrous surfaces seem to be criss-crossed by veins, striations and organic flows that evoke both bark and sap. The tree is never represented head-on: it emerges. It can be discerned in the very structure of the work, on the edge between the visible and the unspeakable.
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About the sale
Arab, African & Indian Modernities
Auction location
Auction time
06/18/2026 at 2:30 PM
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