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Artist: JEAN EVEN (1910-1986) Size: 24 x 39 3/8 in./60.8 x 100 cm Edita, Casablanca Jean Even was something of an artistic prodigy, winning top awards at several of France's best art schools. (Though it certainly helps when one of your teachers is the celebrated posterist André Devambez.) In 1936, Even won the Casa Velázquez Prize, which provided French art students with a year of study at a Madrid institution specially built for the purpose. There was just one problem: the Spanish Civil War was raging, and the Casa Velázquez was partially destroyed. The students were relocated to Fez, Morocco, and that began Jean Even's grand love affair with the country, which continued with military and commercial placements there in the 1930s and '40s. The love is evident in this work from the 1950s. Try to remove your eyes from the curve of the blonde's hip, and note the concatenation of stripes in palm fronds, beach cover-up and cabanas; then send your vision out to the Mountains of Atlas and admire his skill in the shadows. (Travel)