Design
Design
Lot Closed
October 8, 05:14 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
JEAN-THÉODORE DUPAS
PANEL FROM "THE BIRTH OF APHRODITE" MURAL FROM THE GRAND SALON OF THE S. S. NORMANDIE
circa 1934
verre églomisé
51⅞ x 34 x 1⅜ in. (131.5 x 86.3 x 3.5 cm) framed
Christie's New York, December 15, 1984, lot 471
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Louis Cheronnet, "Normandie," Art et Décoration, July 1935, p. 253
Yvanhoé Rambosson, "Le Paquebot Normandie, Héraut de France," Mobilier et Décoration, July 1935, pp. 267-268
Bruno Foucart, et al., Normandie Queen of the Seas, New York, 1985, p. 72
Louis-Rene Vian, Arts Décoratifs À Bord des Paquebots Français 1880-1960, Paris, 1992, pp. 192-199
John Maxtone-Graham, Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Oceanliner, New York, 2007, pp. 92-93, 206 and 24