The Game of Draughts by Eugène Girardet – estimated at £60,000-80,000 at Sotheby’s.
The catalogue, dedicated to Western paintings of north Africa and the Middle East, includes this work by Eugène Girardet (1853-1907) titled The Game of Draughts (estimate £60,000-80,000).
Girardet made his first trip to Spain and Morocco in 1874 and then travelled to Tunisia and Algeria. Back in Paris in 1877, he and 13 other artists formed the Société des peintres orientalistes français.
