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Property from an Important New York Collection

Charlotte Perriand, "Nuage" Bookshelf

Auction Closed

December 12, 06:50 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important New York Collection

Charlotte Perriand

 "Nuage" Bookshelf


circa 1961

painted steel, oak

28 ⅜ x 141 ¾ x 13 ⅛ in. (72 x 360 x 33.5 cm)

Fort Gouraud, Zouérat, Mauritania

Private Collection

Christie's Paris, November 24, 2014, lot 47

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Mary McLeod, Charlotte Perriand : An art of living, New York, 2003, pp. 145-146

Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, Un art d'habiter 1903-1959, Paris, 2005, pp. 400, 403, 405, 417, 421 and 422

Steph Simon : Retrospective 1956-1974. Prouvé, Perriand, Mouille, Jouve, Noguchi, exh. cat., Galerie Downtown François Laffanour, February-March 2007, pp. 62-63 and 67

Charlotte Perriand L'aventure japonaise, exhibition catalogue, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, February 22-May 26 2013, p. 176

Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, L'oeuvre complète, vol.3, Paris, 2017, pp. 24-25 and 56-57

Le monde nouveau de Charlotte Perriand, exh. cat., Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2 October 2019-24 February 2020, p. 333