A watercolor painting by French artist Andre Maire, depicts the landscape of Luxor, with groups of people and architectural details. Signed at the bottom right and dated 1939.
Andre Maire (Paris 1898 - 1985) graduated Fine Art School of Paris in 1917. During WW1, he was mobilized to French Indochina in Vietnam, where became a school teacher for arts in the College of Saigon. From that time he was traveling in numerous countries: Cambodia, Italy (especially Venice), Spain, Egypt, India, Ceylon, and Africa. His Paris exhibitions were well received by both critics and the public.
Andre Maire produced a lot of orientalist drawings in the art-deco style, very modern, pure, and stylized. He is well known for his charcoal sketches, watercolors, gouaches, inks, and sepias.