MARIE LUCAS-ROBIQUET (1864–1959)
Taking Refreshemnt at Aïn Séfra
About the artwork
Taking Refreshemnt at Aïn Séfra is an artwork by MARIE LUCAS-ROBIQUET, dated ca. 1891. The work is executed in Oil on canvas. Its recorded dimensions are 35.5 x 50 cm 14 x 19 3/4 in.. View the artwork and contact Colnaghi for further information.
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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 / Fairs
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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