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Artists who fell for Morocco

Roberto Arlt

His only trip outside South America took him to Tangier and Tetouan, which he wrote up in ten chronicles.

  • From: Argentina
  • Their art: writer
  • In Morocco: 1935, as correspondent for El Mundo
  • Made here or about here: Aguafuertes africanas (in Aguafuertes españolas), 1935

Where in Morocco

  • Tangier: wrote 'El narrador de cuentos' on a storyteller in the Grand Socco
  • Tetouan: struck by its architecture
Sources, checked 2026-11-15
  1. www.ellitoral.com/opinion/marruecos_0_kiq0Kd3ANz.html

Next

Eugène DelacroixHis 1832 journey gave him subjects he returned to for the rest of his life.Henri MatisseHe painted in Tangier in 1912 and 1913, and while there made several changes to his work, including his use of black as a colour.John LaveryAfter his first wife's death he left for a long stay in North Africa that included Tangier.Marià FortunySent to paint a war, he came back with a lifelong taste for Moroccan light and subjects.Mariano BertuchiThe painter of the Spanish protectorate spent the core of his career in northern Morocco.Francis BaconBacon spent stretches of the 1950s in Tangier, where his partner lived.Every artist, on the mapFrom five continents

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