{"title":"Mohamed Melehi","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1936 in Asilah, Mohamed Melehi studied at the Fine Arts school in Tetouan, then in Seville, Madrid, Rome and finally New York in the early 1960s, where he discovered geometric abstraction and American hard-edge painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack in Morocco he taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Casablanca from 1964 to 1969, alongside Farid Belkahia and Mohamed Chebâa. His signature became the wave: undulations in bold colours, repeated and offset, evoking the sea, flame and rhythm all at once. He also worked in graphic design, publishing and murals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major figure of Moroccan cultural life, he co-founded the Asilah Cultural Moussem in 1978. He died in 2020, leaving a body of work that deeply shaped abstraction in Morocco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDo you own a work by Mohamed Melehi?\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gallery can examine it: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/estimation\"\u003erequest a valuation\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/revente\"\u003econsign it for sale\u003c\/a\u003e at ARTWORKS in Casablanca. The authenticity of every work is checked before it is offered for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eIn the same spirit\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover works by \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/omar-bouragba\"\u003eOmar Bouragba\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/rachid-taleb\"\u003eRachid Taleb\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/mezri\"\u003eMezri\u003c\/a\u003e, or browse \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/art-for-sale-in-morocco\"\u003eall Moroccan paintings for sale\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/2088\/0442\/collections\/Mohamed-Melhi.jpg?v=1689687032","url":"https:\/\/moroccanpaintings.com\/en\/collections\/mohamed-melehi-1.oembed","provider":"Moroccan Paintings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}