NORTH AFRICAN PAINTERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1938, Page 7

NORTH AFRICAN PAINTERS

EXHIBITION IN FEBRUARY.

Algiers will have an exhibition in February of the paintings of Henri Clamens, one of many French artists who have painted scenes of North Africa. During last summer, Jacques Majorelle, Francois Louis Schmied and Camille Josso exhibited paintings of Morocco at the Cooling Gallery, in London.

Painters go to North Africa but seldom return. In Fez there is a French painter whose works are well known ■n France. He lives in a native house, but his atelier might be on the top of Montmartre. Though surrounded by souvenirs of Paris and student days, photographs of his family in France, ne cannot return. Friends visit him passing ihrough Morocco and talk about old times arid implore him to return. He shakes his head. “I cannot go back. What should I do without these colours?” and he pulls aside the curtain of his window and points to the brown road that leads to a Moorish gate, 'shining with blue and green tiles, natives in all colours, palm -rees against the sky, and the pink Atlas mountains far off.