Lot 511
  • 511

Jean Prouvé

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Description

  • Jean Prouvé
  • A Rare ''Bergère'' Lecture Hall Chair from the Law Faculty of the University of Aix-Marseille
  • lacquered steel, aluminum, and oak

Provenance

Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris

Exhibited

Jean Prouvé:  Three Nomadic Sculptures, Arthur Ross Gallery, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, New York, April 12-May 10, 2002

Literature

Jean Prouvé:  Constructeur, exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1990, p. 165 (for a period photograph of the lecture hall)
Jean Prouvé, 1901-1984:  Constructeur, Paris, 2001, figs. 126 (for a period photograph of the lecture hall) and 127
Laurence Allégret and Valérie Vaudou, eds., Jean Prouvé et Paris, Paris, 2001, p. 232, figs. 40 (for a period photograph of the lecture hall) and 42
Jean Prouvé:  Three Nomadic Sculptures, exh. cat., Arthur Ross Gallery, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, New York, 2002, p. 36
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé:  Œuvre Complète/Complete Works, Volume 3:  1944-1954, Basel, to be published in December 2004, cat. no. 1235.11

Catalogue Note

Fewer than ten of these chairs are believed to have survived.