Larbi Belcadi; Original Moroccan Mid-Century Sculptural Painting, 'Fish' 1972

Description: An original mixed medium work by noted Moroccan Modernist, Larbi Belcadi (1939-2001), created in 1972. This lively, vibrant painting features several fish, although I'm not sure if they're being depicted under water or on a dinner table! It's signed and dated lower left, and it's also titled on the stretcher bar but obscured by the frame. The painting itself measures approximately 19.5" x 25.5", and with the frame about 20.5" x 26.5". The following biography was found online:Born in Rabat in 1930, Larbi Belcadi met the painter Moulay Ahmed Drissi at the Moulay Youssef high school who gave painting lessons there. Impressed by the charisma of this painter, Belcadi defied the contrary advice of his parents and enrolled at the Casablanca School of Fine Arts. He created the “L'oeil noir” gallery and held his first exhibition in 1957. At the end of the 1950s, he took classes in the studio of Jacqueline Brodskis. Larbi Belcadi then enrolled in France, from 1964 to 1966, at IDHEC, Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies, decor section. Back in Morocco, he devoted himself to caricature and painting and used new materials, described as “anti-pictorial”.He died in 2001 in Rabat.Larbi Belcadi is a painter and sculptor. To construct his work, he shapes and models several materials and enriches the painting by adding copper and other materials so specific to Morocco. So he forged copper, cut stone, glued and tinted various substances. He then makes assemblages, playing on reliefs, sometimes not hesitating to create them, refusing the flatness of things. In these shapes and curves, we can sense, somewhere, an influence of Moroccan architecture: calligraphy, spirals and inlays.

Price: 1500 USD

Location: Los Angeles, California

End Time: 2025-01-18T01:28:45.000Z

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