Leroy Neiman Sketchbook

LeRoy Neiman SketchbookWinston Churchill used to paint the exotic gardens of the internationally famous Mamounia Hotel in Marrakesh. I concentrated on sketching the action at its poolside. Morocco is a blend of conflicting time frames, the modern and the traditional, as it tries to Westernize. Witness my upper-class, affluent and privileged Moorish textile honcho arriving at the poolside locker rooms in his pristine white jellaba and embroidered babouches, only to emerge moments later in contemp...