Nov 08, 2012 - Sale 2293

Sale 2293 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
MAURICE ROMBERG DE VAUCORBEIL (1862-1943) LE MAROC PAR MARSEILLE. 1920.
41 1/4x30 1/4 inches, 104 3/4x76 3/4 cm. Cornille & Serre, Paris.
Condition A. Framed.
A cross promotional poster published by the PLM Railway and the Compagnie de Navigation Paquet. "The Compagnie Paquet alone accounted for over a third of all the posters for Morocco" (Orientalist p. 27). Little biographical information exists about Romberg, but he was an Orientalist painter, watercolorist and poster designer. Here he depicts "the Sultan on his way to the mosque in Fez." Orientalist p. 24.