Mohammed RACIM (1896-1975) - Lot 166

Mohammed RACIM (1896-1975) Emir Abdelkader Gouache, watercolor and gold highlights on paper. Signed and located in Algiers lower right in Arabic, lower left in Latin characters. Framed. 17.6 x 12.8 cm Slight differences in polychromy. Provenance : Former Madame Bosselut collection, Paris. Exhibition: Galerie Ecalle, Paris, 1932, n°12. The great Algerian miniaturist behind this work was commissioned several times to paint the portrait of Emir Abdelkader, notably for stamps: one in 1949 to mark the erection of the Emir Abdelkader "friend of the French" monument near Mascara, showing his portrait alongside that of Governor General Bugeaud, and the second in 1966, the year of his death, simply bearing his effigy.