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§ Hassan El Glaoui (Moroccan/French, b. 1923) Arab Rider with a White Horse signed "Hassan el Glaoui" lower left watercolour and gouache on board 49 x 64cm (19 x 25in)
Provenance: Private collection, UK Other Notes: Despite opposition from his father, a powerful pasha named Thami, El Glaoui began painting in his teens and, following art education in France, he held his first show in 1952 in Paris. He then returned to Morocco in 1965, concentrating on painting horses. El Glaoui regards his work as a “living mirror of the past and the traditions which are still the essence of the Moroccan spirit. My love of my country has been the defining spirit of my painting. I have recorded our ancestral roots, the flowers in the Valley of the Kasbah and the red Cherifian palaces, the royal corteges with their long lines of white burnouses and the mounted cavalry and their horses" Today El Glaoui's work is highly prized, but he owes his career to Sir Winston Churchill, who discovered him in 1943, and talked his reluctant parents into sending him to art school.
ConditIon is fine.

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