MARIE LUCAS-ROBIQUET, Taking Refreshemnt at Aïn Séfra

Oil on canvas

35.5 x 50 cm;
(14 x 19 ¾ in.)

£ 60,000 | € 69,500 | $ 82,000

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Provenance

Rachel Liberman, Paris;

Private Collection, Belgravia, purchased in the early 1990s;

By whom sold, Sotheby’s, London, 29 April 2025, lot 217.

Exhibitions

Lucas-Robiquet, Marie Aimée Éliane, maiden name: Robiquet. Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford University Press, 31 October 2011.

Benjamin, Roger, Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930, University of California Press, 2003.

Morot, René, Parisian Illustrated Review, volume 2, 1897, pp.59-60.
Healy, Mary, Uncovering French Women Orientalist Artists: Marie Elisabeth Aimée Lucas–Robiquet

(1858–1959), Women’s Studies, 44:8, 1178-1199
Kelly, Mary, French Women Orientalist Artists, 1861–1956, Cross-Cultural Contacts and Depictions of

Difference, Routledge, 2021.
Thornton, Lynne, Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting, Paris: Poche Couleur, 1994.

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