Delacroix. Moroccan picture rails

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

By landing in Tangier at the end of January 1832, Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) hoped to discover the Orient, the real one, far from the improbable "Turkeries" which were all the rage in artistic circles of the time. He only stayed in Morocco for one hundred and twenty-five days, not...

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

By landing in Tangier at the end of January 1832, Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) hoped to discover the Orient, the real one, far from the improbable "Turkeries" which were all the rage in artistic circles of the time. He only stayed in Morocco for one hundred and twenty-five days, not one more, but, back in Paris, he never stopped drawing from his Moroccan breeding grounds and, for thirty years, freely prolonging the conflagration on canvases. born from his six-month Mediterranean journey. He comes back dazzled and will never forget this real shock of colors, sounds, costumes. "Beauty runs through the streets, it is desperate," he said of Tangier and so many other cities.

Travel notebooks, watercolors, drawings, sketches and sketches remain at the heart of this sublime anthology of the sources of paintings brought together for the first time in these Moroccan Cimaises as so many aesthetic messages, original signals, meditations on the Jewish life in the land of Islam or on the trauma that was his three-day stopover in Algiers.

French
320 pages

Editions Balzac