Property from an Important New York Collection

Jean Prouvé

Curved "Compas" Desk

Auction Closed

June 11, 08:36 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important New York Collection

Jean Prouvé

Curved "Compas" Desk


circa 1953

produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

laminated sapele, lacquered and enameled metal

28 ¾ x 76 ⅛ x 37 ¼ in. (73 x 193.5 x 94.6 cm)

Aurelia Mokhtari Thevenin, Paris

Magen H Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Jean Prouvé/Serge Mouille, exh. cat., Antony DeLorenzo and Alan & Christine Counord, New York and Paris, 1985, p. 64 (for a related model)

Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 100-101 (for related models)

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 264-267 (for related models)

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, p. 350 (for a related model)




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