Nov 19, 2015 - Sale 2399

Sale 2399 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JEANNE THIL (1887-1968) BORDEAUX • MAROC / PAR LA CIE GLE TRANSATLANTIQUE. Circa 1930.
39 1/4x24 3/4 inches, 99 3/4x63 cm. Crété-Corbeil.
Condition B+ / A-: repaired tears at edges, some into text.
"Jeanne Thil studied under Charles Fouqueray . . . [she] discovered North Africa thanks to a travel grant which enabled her to visit Tunisia and she subsequently travelled widely throughout the French colonial empire. Her travels inspired her to produce posters and paintings which combined highly exotic images with bright colors" (Orientalist p. 17). Orientalist p. 17 (var).