
Auction Closed
July 30, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
JEAN-THÉODORE DUPAS
TWO PANELS FROM "THE BIRTH OF APHRODITE" MURAL FROM THE GRAND SALON OF THE S. S. NORMANDIE
circa 1934
executed by Charles Champigneulle, France
verre églomisé
49⅛ x 33½ in. (124.8 x 85.6 cm) each
Acquired by the present owner circa 1970
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