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# Moroccan artist Mohamed Melehi hits new auction record at Marrakech sale
- URL: https://www.urgentmatter.press/moroccan-artist-mohamed-melehi-hits-new-auction-record/
- Published: 2025-11-05T15:00:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-05T15:00:17.000Z
- Description: It sold for 1,272% above its high estimate.
- Author: Adam Schrader
- Tags: Market and Money, #public-access

A print by Mohamed Melehi, a Moroccan modernist associated with the Casablanca school, sold Saturday for more than $112,000, setting a record for a lithograph by the artist.

The print, *Allah* (1972), bears the word “Allah” in black Arabic calligraphy against a field of radiating color bands.

It was included in Artcurial’s 63-lot “Moroccan and African Spirit” auction [at La Mamounia in Marrakech](https://www.artcurial.com/en/articles/success-for-the-moroccan--african-spirit-auction?ref=urgentmatter.press) and sold for 1,272% above its high estimate. It had been estimated to fetch between $6,600 and $8,800.

“Mohamed Melehi is one of the great founders of Moroccan artistic modernity,” the auction’s catalog reads.

Meanwhile, the painting *Vague*, made by Melehi around 1968, had been estimated to fetch between $120,000 and $180,000 and sold for more than $191,000\. That artwork shows a geometric abstract composition dominated by vivid, rhythmic wave forms in shades of blue, orange, and red—evoking light reflections or desert heatwaves.

A third artwork by Melehi, the painting *Sans titre* (1970), sold for more than $172,000, under its estimate of about $180,000.

In total, the auction brought in more than $2.2 million, with the top lot selling for just under $200,000\. That work was a painting by Jacques Majorelle titled *Marché sur la place du village, Côte d’Ivoire* from 1952.