« In ten or twenty years, your Royal Highness can be certain that Morocco will occupy a crucial place in the world of painting » André Malraux to Princess Lalla Malika (Paris ,June 1963). The deep commitment of Andre Elbaz for Morocco, his sense of humor in recounting some of the experiences he went through, his love for the local language, his interest in the youth of his country, his faith in its future, his generosity (he spontaneously offered in 2007 to the future National Museum of Contemporary Art in Rabat a donation of 15 major works), his happiness to return to his country to show the product of a significant part of half a century of struggle turn this retrospective and this book, into one of the key moments of the year 2010 « Driss El Yazami, President of the National Council for Human Rights.
