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JOSÉ TAPIRÓ Reus, 1836-Tangier, 1913 “La fiesta de la Issawa. M. 1885” Watercolor on paper Signed Measurements 48.5 x 69.5 cm Origin: - Private collection, Reus. José Tapiró is considered one of the best watercolourists of his time, endowed with an extraordinary technique, meticulous and precious. He achieved international fame for his approach to the orientalist world. His training took place at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Barcelona under the mastery of Domènec Soberano and Claudio Lorenzale and then of Federico Madrazo in Madrid. In 1857 he went to Rome with his dearest friend Mariano Fortuny and two years later they visited Morocco for the first time. In 1862 he moved to Rome, which alternated with trips to Barcelona, Reus, Madrid, Granada, Tangier, Tetouan and Amalfi. In 1877, after the death of Fortuny, he settled down definitively in Tangier where he painted numerous watercolors which are a faithful testimony of the traditions and customs of that country. In 1889 he was awarded with a diploma of the Spanish Exhibition held in London and with the second medal in the Universal of Paris. In 1893 his was the only medal at the Universal Exhibition of Chicago and, in 1896, second medal of the Barcelona Exhibition. His work is present in important museums and international collections. This watercolor represents the annual entourage of the religious brotherhood of the Issawa at the moment the members of the brotherhood access the Medina of Tangier through the door of Bab Rabba and parade in procession to their zawiyah (monastery) next to the New Mosque . Tapiró describes with great precision the development of this unusual Moroccan ritual where music, mystical outbursts and exorcism broke through the central street of Shiaguin. Work exhibited in: - Josep Tapiró. Painter from Tangier, MNAC from Barcelona, April 17 to September 14, 2014, num. 24. - Josep Tapiró i Baró, Museo de Reus, January 23 - May 31, 2014 Work published in: - Carbonell, Jordi A., Josep Tapiró. Painter from Tangier, Barcelona: MNAC / Tarragona: Universita Rovira i Virgil1, 2014, pp. 123-129. - Carbonell, Jordi A., Josep Tapiró i Baró (Reus, 1836 - Tangier, 1913), Reus: Institut Municipal de Museus de Reus D.L. 2014, pp. 67 and 68. - Carbonell, Jordi A., Orientalisme: l'Al-Maghrib i els pintors del segle XIX, Pragma: Tarragona, , 2006, pp. 176-181.