Marrakesh

Gloucestershire: Leslie Gerry Editions, 2020. One of 80 copies, signed by the artist. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Unpaginated. Gerry's vibrant images of the people, animals, and landscapes of Marrakesh capture the dynamic meld of cultures all resident in the North African city. Gerry travels to each of the locations around which he bases his books, and there begins with various sketches, which he adapts into a painterly and highly saturated realist style through layers of digital brushstrokes. To this is added excerpts from Edith Wharton's In Morocco, in which she narrates, with a traveler's awestruck vision, her five-week visit to the country in 1917. Bound in patterned cloth over boards backed in yellow leather. Fine. Housed in slipcase.