Nov 08, 2012 - Sale 2293

Sale 2293 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 5,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
JACQUES MAJORELLE (1886-1962) LE MAROC. 1923.
41x29 1/2 inches, 104x75 cm. Champenois, Paris.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges; creases and abrasions in margins and image.
Primarily a painter and watercolorist, Majorelle (son of the famous Art Nouveau furniture designer Louis Majorelle) may be best remembered for the botanical garden he designed and landscaped in Marrakech. The garden bears his name, as does a color he used extensively in the garden, Majorelle Blue. Orientalist p. 68, Voyage p. 130.