Lot 439
  • 439

Edgar Brandt and Daum

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Edgar Brandt and Daum
  • "La Tentation" Floor Lamp
  • shade engraved DAUM NANCY/FRANCE with the Croix de Lorrainebase impressed E.BRANDT
  • gilt bronze, pâte de verre
  • 65 3/4  in. (167 cm) high19 3/4  in. (50.2 cm) diameter of shade

Provenance

DeLorenzo Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984

Literature

Catalogue Galeries Edgar Brandt, Paris, 1930, n.p.
Art & Antiques, March 1993, cover
Joan Kahr, Edgar Brandt: Master of Art Deco Ironwork, New York, 1999, p. 156
Joan Kahr, Edgar Brandt: Art Deco Ironwork, New York, 2010, p. 133
Sarah D. Coffin and Stephen Harrison, The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, exh. cat., Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 2017, p. 36

Catalogue Note

Sotheby's would like to thank Joan Kahr for her assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.