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Christie s to offer rediscovered pastel by Eugene Delacroix Eugène Delacroix, Arab Hunting a Lion. €250,000-350,000. © Christie s Images Ltd 2021. PARIS .-Christie’s announced the top lot of the Old Master and 19th Century Drawings auction (24 March 2021), an important rediscovered pastel by celebrated romantic artist Eugène Delacroix, an Orientalist drawing which reappears on the market after having belonged to the painter Edgar Degas, estimated at €250,000-350,000. The artist’s trip to North Africa in 1832 made a lasting impression on Delacroix for the rest of his career, as shown by this important pastel made in the last decades of his life, and which has come down to us in very good condition. A painting of the same composition kept in the former collection of the British painter Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987), recently at the sale Christie’s, New York, 23 May 2007, lot 72, can be accurately dated thanks to the Journal of Delacroix (L. Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène D

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