Nubian Girl
A tapestry/carpet, Tabriz, Persia, contemporary, after a design by Jacques Majorelle.
6ft x 4ft 11 : 184cm x 150cm
Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962), was the son of the noted Art Nouveau furniture designer Louis Majorelle. Went to North Africa, in 1917, in particular to Morocco, where he stayed and painted local market scenes and dwellings in rural landscape surroundings. By 1920 he started to paint scenes featuring Nubian women which were fashionable at the time in Paris.
These paintings were first exhibited at the Dreche Gallery, Cassablanca, in 1933. He had his models pose on the exotic vegetation of the gardens at his Cubist designed villa in Marrakech, commissioned from the architect Paul Sinoir.
After his death, it was Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge who restored and saved the villa, which had fallen into disrepair. The house and gardens is now open as a museum.
Price : £ 16,000
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