Premier Chef d’oeuvre de mon frere.
Une grande oeuvre accomplie durant les mois qui ont precede l’Independance du Maroc et intitulee , bien sur
“L’Independance du Maroc”
Mon frere avait tout juste 17 ans.
First Masterpiece of the late and great artist DAIRAC, my late brother..
This creation was initiated in the turbulent months that followed the independance of Morocco from France and Spain…therefore Raphael Cohen called it :
” THE INDEPENDANCE OF MOROCCO “.
The artist ” Dairac ” was only 17 years old in 1956 when he started to paint his first and huge masterpiece!
This big oil on canvas was commissioned by some personnalities of the newly independant Moroccan Kingdom and was the central piece of Raphael Cohen first of many exhibits in Rabat, Morocco- Nancy and Paris , France- Bruxelles, Belgium – Sitges, Madrid,Spain- Houston, Texas, USA..
But my brother refused to sell it to the first prime minister of the new independant Morocco , the honorable Ahmed Balafrej because he could not part from it..his attachment to Morocco was in that composition and too
many emotions were attached to it..