Lot 436: Amours Exotiques.

Amours Exotiques was a semi-documentary silent film culled from the massive amount of footage taken by director Léon Poirier during the course of his incredibly well-received-and influential- La Croisière Noire, a film that followed a explorational journey across continental Africa. Also known as 2e Mission Haardt-Andouin Dubreuil, "The Black Cruise" embarked on October 28, 1924, with seventeen men in eight half-track vehicles heading out of the Algerian village of Colomb-Bechar into the eastern Sahara. Their mission, sponsored by automobile magnate André Citröen, was to film a nineteen-month trip that would take them over almost the entire African continent, incidentally showcasing the superiority of the French automotive industry in the face of rugged terrain as well as the expansive nature of France's many African colonies. Along with La Croisière Noire, Amours Exotiques would be cited as one of the primary generators behind the popular passion for all things African in 1920s France, influencing major artists like Picasso, Gauguin, and Matisse.

44 7/8 x 60 3/8 in./113.9 x 153.4 cm

1927

B-/ Restored tears, primarily at folds & edges.