The Olive Basin

Menara gardens · Basin dug c. 1157 · Menara, Marrakech

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Original Berbernest composition

black with a mount · Menara, Marrakech · Basin dug c. 1157

Black · actual frame finishProdigi’s product photograph. Flat 20 mm face, 22 mm depth, with a snow-white mount.

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40 × 50 cm · Black frame & mount

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Moulding: Classic satin-laminated wood, 20 mm face and 22 mm depth
Glaze: Acrylic / Perspex, matching the exact framed SKU we order
Mount: 2.4 mm snow-white conservation board, sustainably sourced and acid-free
Mount width: About 50 mm on every side, derived from the live artwork area
Paper: Enhanced Matte Art paper, 200 gsm, printed giclée
Hanging: Delivered framed and ready to hang, with a Cobra hook at these sizes

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About this composition

The pavilion is the photograph everybody takes and the basin is the reason it is there. Almohad engineers cut a reservoir to irrigate an olive grove and fed it from the Atlas through a khettara, an underground channel, so the water arrives without evaporating on the way. What reads as a beauty spot is twelfth-century hydraulics that still works.

Still water, olive, snow on the Atlas

Inspired by a real Moroccan place

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This is a real address in Marrakech, painted from the geography rather than from anybody's canvas. You can stand where this was painted.

This is one of the seventeen places you can have your own animal painted into. Paint your pet here, or read about the place.

A contemporary Berbernest composition. Save it to revisit while prints are unavailable.