Orientalist Paintings
An Invitation to Travel!
The Orientalist Department headed by Olivier Berman confirmed its dynamic development in 2010 to become European continental leader in the field, only two years after its launch.
There were excellent results and vigorous demand for works by Jacques Majorelle, Jean-Gaston Mantel, Edy Legrand, Georges Washington, Alexander Iacovleff, Felix Ziem and Fabius Brest.
Under the gavel of François Tajan, the sale of Orientalist Pictures held on 9 June 2011 brought a total €3,516,680, with no fewer than four world records: two for Jacques Majorelle, and one each for Edouard Edy Legrand and Alexandre Roubtzoff.
The fast-growing Orientalist Department is now set to pursue its expansion with one of the most important specialist auctions to be staged by any firm in recent years.
To reply to increasing demand, we are already preparing our next sale, to take place in December 2011, and which will include a major section devoted to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
Whether you are an experienced collector or new enthusiast, our department is at your service to assist you with any questions you may have concerning the purchase, sale or valuing of works in your collection - free of charge and in strictest confidence.
Some recent prices
- José Cruz Herrera (1890-1972)
Les fiancées - Oil on canvas
73 x 100 cm - 471 434 €, 8 June 2010
- World record for the artist at auction
- Jacques Majorelle (1886–1962)
La Kasbah rouge (Freija), 1924 - Oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm - 1 315 818 €, 9 June 2011
- World record for the artist at auction
- Lucien Levy-Dhurmer (1865–1963)
Beautés de Marrakech, circa 1930 - Pastel sur papier
61 x 85 cm - 297 900 €, 18 December 2011
- Jean-Gaston Mantel (1914-1995)
L’Aouache, 1972 - Oil on canvas
81,5 x 65 cm - 62 500 €, 1st December 2010
- Edouard-Léon-Louis Edy-Legrand (1892-1970)
La Tikka, l’heure du thé - Oil on paper
97 x 129 cm - 378 494 €, 9 June 2011
- World record for the artist at auction
- Lucien Levy-Dhurmer (1855-1953)
Portrait d’une berbère marocaine - Pastel on paper
- 49 x 46 cm
- 50 106 €, 2 December 2009
- Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962)
Les Kasbahs de l’Atlas - portfolio of 30 plates published by Lucien Vogiel / Jules Maynial, 1930
- 29 000 €, 9 June 2011
- World record for Majorelle’s Les Kasbahs de l’Atlas at auction
- Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962)
Fatima, Marrakech, circa 1934 - Distemper & mixed media with gold & silver highlights on cardboard
- 94,5 x 68 cm
- 359 900 €, 9 June 2011
- José Cruz Herrera (1890-1972)
Beautés marocaines - Oil on canvas
73 x 92 cm - 124 458 €, 9 June 2011
- Eugène Girardet (1853-1907)
La récolte des dattes, circa 1890 - Oil on canvas
54 x 74,5 cm - 74 890 €, 8 December 2008
- Victor Huguet (1835-1902)
Halte de Bicharis dans le désert de Lybie, 1861 - Oil on canvas
- 110 x 196 cm
- 159 156 €, 8 December 2008
- World record for the artist at auction
- Etienne Dinet (1861-1929)
Les prisonniers du cheikh - Oil on canvas
49,5 x 69 cm - 153 000 €, 18 December 2011
- Henri Rousseau (1875-1933)
Caïd marocain et son escorte, 1924 - Oil on canvas
54,5 x 65,5 cm - 40 000 €, 18 December 2011
- Félix Ziem (1821-1911)
Fontaine de la Sultane Mihrisah, Eaux douces d’Asie - Oil on panel
53 x 80 cm - 37 714 €, 1st December 2010
- Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876)
Le départ pour la chasse à Laghouat, 1868 - Oil on panel
35,5 x 26,5 cm - 30 280 €, 1st December 2010
- Alexandre Roubtzoff (1884-1949)
Bédouine de Tunis, 1935 - Oil on canvas
- 98 x 75 cm
- 434 300 €, 8 June 2010
- World record for the artist at auction
- Alexandre Roubtzoff (1884-1949)
Porte cloutée, zaouïa Bakria, 1927 - Watercolour & pencil on paper
- 65 x 49 cm
- 60 020 €, 9 June 2011
- World record for a work on paper by the artist at auction
- Léon Girardet (1856-1895)
Intérieur d’une maison mauresque - Oil on canvas
- 73 x 59 cm
- 68 700 €, 8 June 2010
- World record for the artist at auction
- Chaïbia (1929-2004)
La partie, 1975 - Acrylic on canvas
- 113 x 92 cm
- 16 066 €, 24 October 2009
- Jilali Gharbaoui (1930-1971)
Composition, 1959 - Oil on canvas
- 64 x 92 cm
- 91 000 €, 9 June 2011
- Farhad Moshiri (né en 1963)
La Jarre, 2000 - Oil on canvas
- 235 x 120 cm
- 25 322 €, 24 October 2009
- Georges Washington (1827-1910)
La chasse à l’antilope - Oil on canvas
73 x 92 cm - 56 300 €, 1st December 2010
- Rudolf Ernst (1854-1932)
Le fumeur de narghilé - Oil on panel
35 x 26 cm - 124 458 €, 9 June 2011
- Germain Fabius Brest (1823-1900)
Scènes animées sur les bords du Bosphore : L'Aurore et le Crépuscule - Pair of Oil on canvas
- 36 x 60 cm (each)
- 124 500 €, 18 December 2011
- Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962)
Le modèle alangui, Marrakech, circa 1930-1935 - Watercolour & gouache on paper
50 x 78 cm - 131 893 €, 9 June 2011
- Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962)
Vue d’Anemiter - Watercolour & gouache on paper
66 x 100 cm - 204 450 €, 8 June 2010
- Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962)
Le Souk des soieries - Oil on canvas
63,5 x 79,5 cm - 146 800 €, 18 December 2011
- Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938)
Les antilopes, Bahr Ouendja, 1925 - Oil on canvas
37,5 x 55 cm - 37 700 €, 1st December 2010
- Paul Elie Dubois (1886-1949)
Le joueur de flûte - Oil on isorel panel
- 173 x 151 cm
- 50 100 €, 8 June 2010
- Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962)
Marché à Bamako,1949 - Oil on canvas
64,5 x 54,5 cm - 149 200 €, 18 December 2011
Auction dates
Twice-yearly, in December and June, at the same time as our Modern Art and Art déco sales, at the Hôtel Marcel Dassault in Paris
Upcoming Auction
- 5 June 2012
- Orientalism
€1,471,000 for Orientalism auction on 18 December 2011
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- Jacques Majorelle (1886–1962)
Bab el Khemis, zaouia Sidi Khanem, circa 1940 - Oil on board
75,5 x 106 cm - 397 082 €, 9 June 2011
Specialists
- Olivier Berman
- Phone: +33 1 42 99 20 67
- Félix Marcilhac
Contact
- Line David
- Phone: +33 1 42 99 16 21