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Book by Jean Besancenot* "Arab and Berber Jewelry of Morocco", Editions de la Cigogne Casablanca, 1953. 40 plates including 193 models of Jewelry, Drawn and commented by Jean Besancenot, (Folklorist) and 1 color plate in frontispiece. Preface by Marcel Vicaire. Sheets in folder and in a portfolio with laces. First edition.
This book is in good condition. It is complete.
We are selling Berber jewelry from the collection of Jean Besancenot.
Please note: slight wear on the shirt, tiny little stains or yellowing, see photos.
Jean Girard, known as Besancenot, was born in 1902 in the Oise department. He arrived in Morocco for the first time in 1934 with the desire to document the costume and finery there. His approach is that of an artist, draftsman, and painter, in the service of ethnography, an approach he had already experimented with while conducting a study of certain regional costumes in Europe. The visual documentation, as complete as possible, that he constitutes will serve as support and complement to create his gouache drawings. In the field, in addition to written notes, he makes quick sketches or more detailed drawings when he has the time and supplements this information with a large number of photographs, often capturing the image on the fly, on the spot. Towards the end of his life, after sorting through his numerous photographic documents, which he classified according to populations and geographical areas, and aware of the exceptional interest of his work, he wanted this collection to be preserved in a place where it would be exploited, disseminated and showcased in the best possible way, and thought of the IMA, then in its creation. It was in 1984 that the IMA acquired this entire collection of 1800 documents.
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