The Orientalist Sale

The Orientalist Sale

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Property from the George Encil Collection

Jacques Majorelle

Blue Smoke

Auction Closed

October 24, 01:12 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the George Encil Collection


Jacques Majorelle

French

1886 - 1962

Blue Smoke


titled, signed with initials and dated Marrakech/J.M. 18 lower right; titled and dated in pencil Fumées bleues / Marrakech Nov 18 on the reverse

oil on board

Unframed: 38 by 46cm., 15 by 18in.

Framed: 50 by 57.5cm., 19¾ by 22¾in.

Sale: Engelman & Gridel, Drouot Paris, 14 December 1976, lot 83bis (titled Les Fumées bleues)

Félix Marcilhac

Félix Marcilhac, Jacques Majorelle, Paris 1988, p. 45, 1995, p. 43

Christophe Guibert, 'Le Maroc de Jacques Majorelle', in Atlas Blue magazine, Royal Air Maroc, September–October 2008, illustrated, p. 40-41

Félix & Amélie Marcilhac, Jacques Majorelle, Catalogue of Work, Paris 2017, p. 227, catalogued and illustrated, no. 8

Nancy, Chambre de Commerce de Nancy, Galerie Huyaux, Jacques Majorelle, Egypte, Maroc, 1919, no. 58