Saâd Ben Cheffaj
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Saâd Ben Cheffaj 🇲🇦

سعد بن شَفّاج (Known as "Saâd Ben Cheffaj")
Master Figurative and Expressionist Painter of the Tetouan School
Born 1939 🇲🇦 Tetouan, Morocco
Passed Away Jan 16, 2023 Tetouan, Morocco
Lifespan 84 years old
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"Color is a meditation upon the mystery of being and the shadows of memory."

Archival Overview

Master Moroccan painter, graduate of the San Fernando Royal Academy in Madrid and the École du Louvre in Paris, whose poetic, somber expressionist canvases made him a titan of Moroccan visual arts.

Biographical Record

Saâd Ben Cheffaj was one of Morocco's most intellectually accomplished visual artists. After completing rigorous classical art studies in Spain and art history at the École du Louvre, he returned in 1965 to teach history of art and painting at the National School of Fine Arts in Tetouan.

His work evolved through periods of figuration, abstraction, and haunting neo-expressionism, characterized by deep earthy ochres, blacks, and meditative human silhouettes that explored mortal solitude and spiritual transcendence.

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Final Resting Place

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Sidi al-Mandri Cemetery
Tetouan, Morocco
GPS: 35.5722, -5.3732
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