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Eugène Gaillard

Pair of Side Chairs

Auction Closed

April 22, 11:22 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Eugène Gaillard

Pair of Side Chairs


circa 1900

carved wood, original tooled leather, brass tacks

36 ⅞ x 17 ¾ x 20 ¾ in. (93.4 x 45 x 52.7 cm) each

Barry Friedman, Ltd., New York
Acquired from the above

Roberta Waddell, ed., The Art Nouveau Style in Jewelry, Metalwork, Glass, Ceramics, Textiles, Architecture and Furniture, New York, 1977, p. 256

Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau Furniture, New York, 1982, pl. 128

Jean-Paul Bouillon, Art Nouveau 1870-1914, Geneva, 1985, p. 143 (for a photograph of the model exhibited at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900)

Gabriel P. Weisberg, Art Nouveau Bing Paris Style 1900, exh. cat., New York, 1986, p. 176, pl. 172 (for a drawing of the model in L’Art Décoratif, June, 1900)

Klaus-Jurgen Sembach, Furniture Design: Twentieth Century, Cologne, 1990, p. 28

Kathleen Howard, ed., The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide, New York, 1994, p. 462 (for an example of the model in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914 Volume III: Furniture, Woodbridge, 1996, pp. 206-207 (for the above mentioned photograph of the model exhibited at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900)

Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau: Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Stuttgart, 1999, p. 144

Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 1000 Chairs, Cologne, 2000, p. 75