Property from an Important Private Collection
Jean Prouvé, Sun Shutter
Auction Closed
December 12, 06:50 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Jean Prouvé
Sun Shutter
circa 1950s
from the first floor of Unité d'Habitation Air France, Brazzaville, mounted on "Portants d'Exposition"
produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France
painted steel, painted aluminum, diamond point and corrugated aluminum
79 ½ x 63 ½ x 43 ¾ in. (201.9 x 161.3 x 111.1 cm)
Shutters:
Air France l'Unité d'Habitation, Brazzaville, Congo
Robert Rubin, New York
Sotheby's, New York, Équipment Intérieur: A Private Collection, December 18, 2004, lot 510
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Portants:
Galerie de Beyrie, New York
Robert Rubin, New York
Sotheby's, New York, Équipment Intérieur: A Private Collection, December 18, 2004, lot 507
Acquired from the above by the present owner
"Jean Prouvé: Three Nomadic Structures," Arthur Ross Gallery, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, April 12-May 10 and September 12, 2003-April 23, 2004
"Jean Prouvé: Three Nomadic Structures at MOCA Pacific Design Center," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, August 14-November 27, 2005 (for the shutters only)
Bernard Toulier, Brazzaville-la-Verte, Congo, Nantes, 1996, p. 38 (for the Unité d'Habitation)
Galerie Jousse Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, p. 136 (for the Unité d'Habitation)
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