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Jacques MAJORELLE (Nancy 1886 – Paris 1962)
Souk in Marrakec…
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Jacques MAJORELLE (Nancy 1886 – Paris 1962)
Souk in Marrakec…
See original version (French)
Estimate €30,000 - €50,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Jacques MAJORELLE (Nancy 1886 – Paris 1962)
Souk in Marrakech, 1955
Tempera and mixed media on black paper
53.5 × 65 cm
Signed, dated and located lower left: J Majorelle Marrakech 1955
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Tempera and mixed media on black paper, signed and dated lower left (21⅛ × 25⅝ in.)
Provenance
Formerly in the Guy Joubert Collection
Private collection
Bibliography
Felix Marcilhac, Amelie Marcilhac; Jacques Majorelle (1886–1962) Catalogue raisonné of paintings
Paris, 2017; no. 219; 1955, reproduced on page 251.
The son of the famous Art Nouveau cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle, Jacques Majorelle (Nancy, 1886 – Paris, 1962) trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy and then at the Académie Julian in Paris, before discovering Morocco in 1917 and settling permanently in Marrakesh in 1919. From 1923 onwards, he created the garden that bears his name, which became famous for the intense ultramarine blue he used there. From the 1930s onwards, he developed a distinctive technique using tempera and gouache on black paper, which enabled him to bring light out of the darkness — a technique particularly suited to the shaded scenes of souks and medinas, as seen in this 1955 work, one of the final major phases of his Moroccan oeuvre.
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