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Antoni GaudÃ, 1852 - 1926
Description
- Antoni Gaudí
- Banc à deux places, vers 1898-1917
A carved olive wood and wrought iron bench by Antoni Gaudi, circa 1898-1914- Hauteur : 84 cm (33 in.) Largeur : 112 cm (44 in.) Profondeur : 55 cm (21 5/8 in.)
Provenance
Eglise Santa Colonna de Cervello près de Barcelone
Ancienne collection Kiki et Pedro Uhart
Vente Versailles, Maître Blache, Art Nouveau et 1925 - Meubles de Gaudi, 4 novembre 1973, lot 198
Galerie Jean-Marie Rossi, Paris
Collection privée, Paris
Literature
Gaudi, préface de Le Corbusier, éd. RM, 1958, Barcelona, pl. 46
James Johnson Sweeney & Josep L. Sert, Antoni Gaudi, éd. Architectural Press, Londres, 1960, planche 84
Jean Cassou, E. Langui et Nicholas Pevsner, Les sources du XXeme siècle, tome II, collections du conseil de l'Europe, éd. des deux mondes, 1961, sous le n° 262
Roberto Pane, Antonio Gaudi, éd. di Comunita, Milan, 1964, p. 197 et planches 268-269 et 274
E. Casanelles, Antonio Gaudi : a Reappraisal, éd. la Poligrafia, Barcelone, 1965, p. 102 et planches XCII et XCIII
Juan Perucho, Gaudi : una arquitechtura de Anticipacion, Barcelone, éd. Poligrafia, 1967, planches 13, 27 et 28
Nikolaus Pevsner, The sources of Modern Architecture and Design, éd. Thames and Hudson, Londres, 1968, p. 86, planches 84 et 106
Riccardo Dalisi, Gaudi mobili e oggetti, éd. Electra, Milan, 1979, pp. 79-85 pour les plans du banc
Marion Page, Furniture designed by architects, éd. Whitney Library of Design, Etas-Unis, 1983, pp. 146, 148-149
Jean Clair, Sam Safran entretien, Rendez-vous en France, n° 4, mars-avril 1989, n.p. pour deux oeuvres de l'artiste dans lesquels figure un banc identique
Anne Bony, Les Années 10, éd. du Regard, Paris, 1991, p. 605
Joan Bargos, Gaudi the Man and his Work, éd. Bulfinch Press Books, Boston, New York, London, 1999, pp. 218-223
Danielle O'Steen, Imitation of Life, Art and Auction, Spécial Issue, artist dossier, avril 2006, pp. 136-137
Gabriele Fahr-Becker, L'Art Nouveau, éd. Könemann, Cologne, n.d., p. 197
Condition
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