#Jacques Majorelle

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In 1935 Jacques Majorelle represented the beauty of the black woman

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Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) - Aïcha au pagne jaune

Oil on masonite. Painted in 1952.

32.6 x 34 inches, 82.8 x 86.5 cm. Estimate: €100,000-150,000.

Failed to sell Christie's, Paris, 10 April 2024.

Painted during Majorelle's trip to Côte d'Ivoire in 1952.

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Jacques Majorelle - Portrait d'Egyptien (1911)

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Jacques Majorelle (French, 1886-1962), Portrait d'Egyptien, 1911. Oil on cardboard, 38 x 46 cm.

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Jacques Majorelle - Gitane, Grenade

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Jacques Majorelle, Morocco

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Jacques Majorelle - Porteuses d'eau

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Jacques Majorelle, The two friends, 1941

tempera, gold and silver powder with pastel highlights

Signed, located and dated lower right J. Majorelle Marrakech 1941

110 x 139 cm (43 1/2 x 54 3/4 in.)

tempera and gold and silver powders on paper

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Jardin Majorelle

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Jacques Majorelle

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"Tinghir Todra", Jacques Majorelle, 1931. Gouache heightened with silver and watercolour on heavy paper.

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Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) - Bab el-Khemis, Zaouïa Sidi Khanem

Oil on cardboard. Painted c.1940.

29.7 x 41.75 inches, 75.5 x 106 cm. Estimate: MAD 3,000,000-5,000,000.

Sold Artcurial, Marrakech, 30 Dec 2023 for MAD 4,086,800 + B.P.

Bab el-Khemis is in Marrakech. Artcurial holds two sales each year in Morocco of Orientalist and Saharan-African art. I tend to show estimates and results in the currency of the host country. Using a website such as xe.com/currencyconverter/ will give you a quick comparison. In this instance, 1000 Moroccan Dirham is roughly 90 Euros.

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Jacques Majorelle - La belle Zohra (1955)

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Jacques Majorelle - Moussem In Moula Dourein, Essaouira (Morocco)

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Yves Saint Laurent at Home

Life with Yves and Pierre

Jacques Grange,  Laurence Benaïm

Photographs by Marianne Haas

Assouline, New York  2022, 240 pages, over 200 illustrations,  24.8 x 3.1cm,    Silk Hardcover,  ISBN: 9781649801234

euro 95,00

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Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé were worldbuilders of an unparalleled caliber; true tastemakers who approached each interior project with imagination and rigeur, crafting grand spaces infused with personality and provenance. Connoisseurs in every sense of the word with a deep knowledge and appreciation for art and interior design, the two built and lived among a spectacular and carefully-considered collection. In close collaboration with world-class designer Jacques Grange, they crafted private spaces full of wonder and enchantment.Readers are invited to discover the couple’s savoir-faire through the most exquisite photographs of the interiors and gardens of Yves’s Château Gabriel, the dacha in Deauville; the Villa Majorelle in Marrakech; the apartment on rue de Babylone and his maison de couture on avenue Marceau. With photographs by Marianne Haas, and texts and special contributions from Jacques Grange, Catherine Deneuve, Betty Catroux, Laurence Benaïm, Louis Benech and other members of Yves’ tribe, the creative couple’s legacy lives on.

26/12/22

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