Saturday, September 13, 2014

Painting of the Day - Gaston Durel

Our thanks to one of our readers for submitting this interesting image of the Bab Boujloud in Fez. It is the work of French painter Gaston Durel (1879-1954) We have not been able to establish when it was painted but it was certainly some time ago!


A small amount of research turned up the fact that he supposedly first came to Morocco around 1920. However, his Orientalist painting (below) of the Nejjarine Fountain is dated 1917.


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2 comments:

Painting said...

Some interesting works

Tim Cullis said...

I seem to remember that Bab Boujouloud was only given the blue colour during the French Protectorate, which would put it post 1912.