Auction Closed
July 30, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
JEAN-MICHEL FRANK
PAIR OF GUÉRIDONS
circa 1940
executed by Comté, Buenos Aires, Argentina
gilt iron
28½ in. (72.3 cm) high each
14⅞ in. (38 cm) diameter each
Carlo Maria Alvear, Palais Sans-Souci, Buenos Aires
Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 1997, pp. 69, 146, 167 and 208
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, l'étrange luxe du rien, Paris, 2006, pp. 68, 131, 149, 162 and 216
James Buresh, Jean-Michel Frank in Argentina, New York, 2010, p. 77 (for the model in blackened iron)
Mo Amelia Teitelbaum, The Stylemakers: Minimalism and Classic-Modernism, 1915-45, New York, 2010, p. 206
This lot is offered together with a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Jean-Michel Frank.