Nov 14, 2019 - Sale 2524

Sale 2524 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MATTÉO BRONDY (1866-1944) MEKNES / MOULAY - IDRISS. 1932.
40 3/4x25 1/2 inches, 103 1/2x64 3/4 cm. Baconnier, Alger.
Condition A-: time-staining in margins; small repaired tear in lower right corner; minor creases and abrasions in image.
Brondy was one of several classically-trained painters who designed travel posters during the 1930s. "He produced a number of splendid posters for Meknes and was head of the city's tourist office in the 1930s" (Orientalist p. 73). Moulay-Idriss is a holy city in northern Morocco. Orientalist p. 72.