Sculpture by Design: Rateau | Giacometti | Les Lalanne

Sculpture by Design: Rateau | Giacometti | Les Lalanne

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Property of an Important New York Collector

Armand-Albert Rateau

An Important Torchère from the Guinle Family

Auction Closed

December 8, 04:49 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of an Important New York Collector

Armand-Albert Rateau

An Important Torchère from the Guinle Family


circa 1922

offered en suite with the preceding lot

patinated bronze, alabaster, ivorine

stamped A. A. RATEAU/INVR/PARIS twice and numbered 1318

67⅜ in. (171.1 cm) high

18½ in. (47 cm) maximum diameter

Guinle Family, Rio de Janeiro, circa 1922
Argentinian Embassy, Rio de Janeiro, by acquisition of the Guinle Family residence, through 1979
Marcio Roiter, Rio de Janeiro
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1985
Yvonne Brunhammer, Le Style 1925, Paris, 1975 p. 40 (for the example of the model made for Jeanne Lanvin, Paris)
Yvonne Brunhammer, 1925, Paris, 1976, p. 204 (for a related model)
Alain Lesieutre, The Spirit and Splendour of Art Deco, Secaucus, NJ, 1978, p. 286, fig. 271 (for a related model)
Milton Abirached Filho, “Na Crise, Asaida e a Reforma,” Domingo, February 1985, p. 27 (for one of the present lots illustrated)
Carol Vogel, “Object Lessons,” New York Times Magazine, March 2, 1986, p. 76 (for the example of the model made for Jeanne Lanvin, Paris)
Jean-Paul Bouillon, Art Deco 1903-1940, New York, 1989, p. 123 (for a related model)
Alastair Duncan, A. A. Rateau, New York, 1990, pp. 22 and 61 (for period photographs of the model exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1926)
Frank Olivier-Vial and François Rateau, Armand-Albert Rateau, Paris, 1992, pp. 35-37 and 200-201 (for the example of the model made for Jeanne Lanvin, Paris)