Hassan El Glaoui

Hassan El Glaoui
Born (1924-12-29)December 29, 1924
Marrakesh, Morocco
Died June 21, 2018(2018-06-21) (aged 93)
Rabat, Morocco
Occupation Painter
Known for Figurative painting

Hassan El Glaoui (1924–2018) was a Moroccan figurative painter best known for his depictions of fantasia horsemen.

Early life and career

El Glaoui was born in Marrakesh, Morocco, on December 29, 1924,[1][2] to the last Pasha of Marrakesh, Thami El Glaoui. The artist credited British Prime Minister Winston Churchill with convincing his powerful father to let him pursue painting as a career, particularly after a 1943 meeting when the Pasha sought and received Churchill's opinion of his son's paintings.[3] The son was the scion to a 300-year-old dynasty over the Berbers, but went into exile[4] following his father's death, with which his family's wealth was confiscated and Hassan El Glaoui himself jailed. He moved to a suburb of Paris upon his release, where he lived with his French wife in a small two-room apartment.[5] Beginning in the early 1950s, El Glaoui trained in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean Souverbie and Émilie Charmy. He returned to Morocco after 15 years, in 1965.[6] His first show was held under a tent in Morocco.[7]

His paintings follow the Moroccan figurative tradition, and his main subjects are military horses and their riders.[6] He rose to prominence in the 1980s with his modernist figurative paintings of fantasia horsemen and landscapes.[7][8] The artist was later exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, among other places, and his work auctioned by Sotheby's.[3][7] He held solo shows in Paris (1950), New York (1952, 1967), London (1960), Brussels (1969), and Casablanca, and his works are collected in the Royal Palace Collection in Fez, Morocco, and the Parliament Collection in Rabat.[6] In exile in New York, he stood out in his djellaba and retained his polite demeanor.[4]

El Glaoui's works were appreciated by Moroccan Kings Hassan II and Mohamed VI.[9] A painting by El Glaoui sold for €42,000 through Christie's auction house in 2007.[3] In early 2012, El Glaoui's work was exhibited alongside Churchill's Moroccan paintings of Marrakech, as proposed by El Glaoui's daughter and curated by Daniel Robbins at the London Leighton House Museum.[3] The 2014 Marrakesh Biennale also showed the pairing.[10][11] His children are also in the fine arts industry. Touria El Glaoui started the contemporary African art fair 1:54,[12] and Ghizlan El Glaoui paints in a mosaic style.[13]

El Glaoui died on June 21, 2018 in Rabat, aged 93.[14][15][16]

References

  1. ↑ Ahdani, Jassim (June 21, 2018). "Pionnier de l'art moderne marocain, Hassan El Glaoui s'éteint à 94 ans". TelQuel. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ Rondeau, Gérard (1997). Figures du Maroc. Eddif. p. 177. ISBN 978-9981-09-007-1.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Allsop, Laura (January 23, 2012). "Winston Churchill: Statesman, Sunday painter and talent scout". CNN. Archived from the original on January 2, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  4. 1 2 Visson, Vladimir (1986). Visson, Lynn, ed. Fair Warning: Memoirs of a New York Art Dealer. Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage. p. 129. ISBN 0-938920-72-3. OCLC 14904262.
  5. ↑ Visson 1986, p. 60.
  6. 1 2 3 "El Glaoui, Hassan". Benezit Dictionary of Artists – via Oxford Art Online.
  7. 1 2 3 Jaggi, Maya (January 15, 2016). "Emerging markets offer original cultural voices". Financial Times. Archived from the original on January 2, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  8. ↑ Morocco. Michelin Travel Publications. 2001. p. 82. Archived from the original on March 26, 2018.
  9. ↑ Sasportas, Valérie (December 4, 2014). "Hassan El Glaoui : «Je suis devenu peintre grâce à Churchill»". Le Figaro. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Winston Churchill: prime minister, painter and art promoter". The Art Newspaper. March 5, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  11. ↑ Vora, Shivani (February 12, 2014). "In Marrakesh, Art by Churchill". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 2, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  12. ↑ Jaggi, Maya (March 27, 2015). "Africa's economic revival boosts art prices". Financial Times. Archived from the original on January 2, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  13. ↑ Baker, Harriet (July 3, 2015). "Mosaics for modern times". Financial Times. Archived from the original on January 2, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  14. ↑ Zine, Ghita (June 21, 2018). "Doyen de la peinture marocaine, Hassan El Glaoui doit ses débuts à Winston Churchill". Yabiladi. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
  15. ↑ http://www.lesiteinfo.com/maroc/hassan-el-glaoui-hommage-a-un-grand-artiste/
  16. ↑ https://mobile.ledesk.ma/encontinu/hassan-el-glaoui-monument-de-la-peinture-marocaine-decede-lage-de-94-ans/
  • Sasportas, Valérie (November 27, 2014). "Les artistes marocains, rois du marché". Le Figaro. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  • Quill, Kate (January 24, 2012). "A friendship forged in Moroccan art". The National. Archived from the original on January 2, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
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