Of Form and Color: Art and Design from the Emmanuel de Bayser Collection

Of Form and Color: Art and Design from the Emmanuel de Bayser Collection

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Of Form & Color: Art & Design from the Emmanuel de Bayser Collection

Jean Prouvé

"Demountable" Chair

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June 10, 06:51 PM GMT

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18,000 - 24,000 USD

Lot Details

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Of Form & Color: Art & Design from the Emmanuel de Bayser Collection

Jean Prouvé

"Demountable" Chair


circa 1950

model no. 300

produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

beech, lacquered metal

31 ¼ x 16 ⅜ x 18 ⅛ in. (79.4 x 41.6 x 46 cm)

Air France Building, Brazzaville, Congo

Private Collection, Paris, acquired circa 1998

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2016

Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 44-45

Laurence Allégret and Valérie Vaudou, eds., Jean Prouvé et Paris, Paris, 2001, p. 226

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 34 and 202-205

Catherine Dumont d'Ayot and Bruno Reichlin, eds., Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of the Technical Object, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2006, p. 305

Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Paris and New York, 2007, vol. 1, p. 69

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 260-265