Jacques MAJORELLE on a big trip to the Algerian oases.

Jacques MAJORELLE (1886.1962)

Autograph card signed to Alfred Lévy.

A page in-12° on the back of a view of the Oasis of Figuig, in Morocco.

January 19 (1935?) Postmarks partially erased.

Rare and beautiful map by the orientalist painter evoking his trip to Algeria.

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“ Under the palms of this famous oasis but less beautiful than those of southern Morocco, I fled my Marrakech and the hassles of the end of the year to make the big trip to the Algerian oases. Beni Abbès, Adrar, Start of the trans-Saharan trail, a trail already very busy with people getting some fresh air. Friendships. Majorelle.”

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The painter Alfred LEVY (1872-1965) entered the Nancy workshops of Jacques' father, Louis Majorelle, in 1888 and subsequently became chief decorator then technical and artistic director (1926) of the Majorelle house, in which he had an influence. decisive at the turning point of Art Deco, alongside Pierre Majorelle and Paul Beucher. He was awarded the medal of honor at the Colonial Exhibition in 1931.