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Property from a Private Florida Collector

Jean-Théodore Dupas

Panel from "The Birth of Aphrodite" Mural from the Grand Salon of the S. S. Normandie

Auction Closed

June 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

35,000 - 55,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Florida Collector

Jean-Théodore Dupas

Panel from "The Birth of Aphrodite" Mural from the Grand Salon of the S. S. Normandie


circa 1934

verre églomisé

48¼ x 31¼ x 1¼ in. (122.6 x 79.4 x 3.2 cm), framed

Hilliard Rentner, Florida
Private Collection, Florida
Thence by descent to the present owner, 1983-1984
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 (for the cartoon of the mural)
Louis-René Vian, Arts Décoratifs À Bord des Paquebots Français 1880-1960, Paris, 1992, pp. 192-195
John Maxtone-Graham, Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Oceanliner, New York, 2007, pp. 92-93, 206 and 245
Sotheby's would like to thank Romain Lefebvre for his assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.