Property from the Cycad Collection
Christian Bérard
An Important Carpet for Nelson Rockefeller
Auction Closed
June 6, 04:43 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Christian Bérard
An Important Carpet for Nelson Rockefeller
1939
executed by Aubusson, France in 1939 for the Rockefeller apartment, 810 Fifth Avenue, New York
hand-woven wool
120 x 115 in. (304.8 x 292.1 cm)
Commissioned directly from the artist by Jean-Michel Frank for the Rockefeller apartment, 1939
Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, New York
Sotheby's New York, A Modernist Vision: Property from the Collection of Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, November 13, 2018, lot 10
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Van Day Truex, "Jean-Michel-Frank Remembered," Architectural Digest, September-October 1976, p. 74
Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 1980, pp. 162 and 197 (for a related example)
Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 1997, pp. 168 and 237 (for a related example)
John Loring, "Nelson Rockefeller's Fifth Avenue Apartment: Recalling the Residence of the Notable Politician and Philanthropist," Architectural Digest, April 2001, pp. 102 and 106
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank: The Strange and Subtle Luxury of the Parisian Haute-Monde in the Art Deco Period, Paris, 2006, p. 190 (for a related example)
Jean-Michel Frank: Un Décorateur dans les Paris des Années 30, exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 2009, p. 67