Painter
Ahmed Ben Driss El Yacoubi
The artist
En 1948, Jane, l'épouse de Bowles, a remarqué le talent de Yacoubi lorsqu'il a griffonné quelques dessins sur du papier à lettres de l'hôtel. Dès lors, les Bowles ont ardemment soutenu le développement artistique et la carrière du jeune homme. Ils l'ont aidé à organiser des expositions, par exemple à la Betty Parson's Gallery à New York en 1952, et l'ont présenté à des personnes influentes, comme la riche chanteuse et actrice Libby Holman, avec qui il a brièvement vécu à New York en 1953. Les premières œuvres de Yacoubi représentaient des créatures zoomorphes, mais il s'est rapidement engagé dans la voie de l'abstraction. Malgré cela, son œuvre est généralement qualifiée d'art naïf. On rapporte que Yacoubi jouait de la flûte sur ses nouvelles peintures "pour leur donner vie" et que son œuvre était décrite comme "magnifique" et pleine de "folie et de franchise". Ses peintures sont aujourd'hui conservées dans de grandes institutions telles que le MoMA, à New York, et la Barjeel Art Foundation à Sharjah, dans les Émirats arabes unis.
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