Boats On The Bou Regreg - Albert Pilot 1922-2002

Dimensions without frame: 75 x 52 With frame: 90.5 x 66.5 canvas and frame numbered on the back: 1254 Very demanding on his qualities as a painter, Albert Pilot can not bring himself to exhibit. Finally, the Gallery Le Savouroux in Casablanca organizes its first major exhibition in 1970. Success and recognition arrive. His Majesty King Hassan II greatly appreciates his painting, especially his fantasias and his views of Rabat-Salé and Bou Regreg, acquires a hundred of his works. A musician, poet, but also a passionate and competent astronomer, he animates for nearly two years RTM (Radio Télévision Marocaine) popularized popularization programs on astronomy, and publishes several books on the subject between 1986 and 1992. His work, of some 3,000 paintings, exhale Morocco, its fantasias, its landscapes, but also Normandy, Brittany, Venice ... and knew how to move some great political figures, such as Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton or George Bush, who own some of his paintings. Albert Pilot died in Rabat February 17, 2002. Very inspired by the Bou Regreg, this magnificent river that ends its race between Rabat, and the small city of Salé, Albert Pilot was subjugated by the fabulous light that dyes and illuminates the river to different hours of the day, opening on the grandiose panorama of the Kashah of Oudaïas. He painted it many times, each of his paintings having a different light. His Majesty the King of Morocco also has one of them, Les Oudaïas, Rabat (46X55). To go further: www.lestresorsdegamaliel.com/gallery-item/barques-sur-le-bou-regreg/ COPYRIGHT Lestresorsdegamaliel.com