

PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION
Indeed, when 97 of Majorelle's paintings of the Atlas were exhibited at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris in 1922, they caused a sensation, their bright colours and unconventional compositions and abstract shapes setting Orientalist painting on a whole new trajectory so different from the Romantic or rigorously academic works expected of the genre. Majorelle's modernist bent was instilled in him from an early age growing up in Nancy, the son of the celebrated furniture designer, Louis Majorelle, and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, at a time when the Art Nouveau movement was in its ascendancy.