Jean Prouvé

"Antony" Chair

Import Tariff

Auction Closed

June 10, 06:51 PM GMT

Estimate

18,000 - 24,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Jean Prouvé

"Antony" Chair

circa 1954

model no. 356

produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

beech plywood, lacquered metal

34 ¾ x 19 ⅞ x 27 ¾ in. (88.3 x 50.5 x 70.5 cm)

Miquel Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2013

Jan van Geest, Jean Prouvé: Furniture, Cologne, 1991, pp. 84-87 and 133

Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 149 and 163

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 272-273

Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Paris and New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 69 and 74

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 278-281, 493 and 511

Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2022, pp. 94-95

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