Old Orientalist Painting Marrakech Morocco By Marcel Vicaire In 1931 Oil On Cardboard

painting with realistic luminosity and colors oil on cardboard framed representing the minaret of marrakech at noon dimension with the frame 43x28.5cm Inspector of Indigenous Trades and Arts also assuming the function of Inspector of Fine Arts and Historical Monuments Curator of the museum du Batha in Fez, Member of the Society of Orientalist Painters Founding member of the association "Les Amis du Vieux Saint-Germain" (1923) Founding member of the "Association of French Painters and Sculptors of Morocco" 1924 Silver Medal of the Society of French Artists (1925) Out of competition Colonial Exhibition of French Artists, painting section (1931) Member of the jury at the Colonial Exhibition of 1931, ceramics section Member of the Cherifian Commission for Military History Corresponding member of the Academy International Ceramics Member of the Moroccan Committee for Scientific Research Winner of the Colonial Society of French Artists (1932) Vermeil Medal of the Encouragement society for national industry (1935) Founder and vice-president of the society “Friends of Fez” Renovator, in Fez, of Andalusian music, animator of the Idrissite Andalusian music group of Dar Adyiel. Publications[edit | modify the code] Marcel Vicaire published Au Maroc, album sheets in 1922 and executed, at the request of Gabriel Hanotaux, illustrations in black and in color for volume XIII of the History of the French Nation ("History of the letters": from Ronsard to the present day), Plon, Paris 1923, and volume III (Morocco) of the History of the French colonies. He adorns with watercolors two poems by his uncle Gabriel Vicaire, Kéris 1921 and the Miracle of Saint Nicolas 1928. He is the author of publications and numerous studies on Moroccan arts, and, in the Bulletin de la Société de l' history of French art of two publications, one on "Two unpublished drawings by Alice Ozy by Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856)", the other on "Morochettiti's projects for the tomb of the Emperor Napoleon ".