
Set of Six "Métropole" Chairs
Auction Closed
June 5, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean Prouvé
Set of Six "Métropole" Chairs
circa 1950
produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France
lacquered metal, beech
31 ⅞ x 16 ¼ x 18 ½ in. (81 x 41.3 x 47 cm) each
Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris, circa 1950
Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000
Jean Prouvé/Serge Mouille, exh. cat., Antony DeLorenzo and Alan & Christine Counord, New York and Paris, 1985, pp. 44-45
Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, p. 41
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, p. 21
Laurence Allégret and Valérie Vaudou, eds., Jean Prouvé et Paris, Paris, 2001, p. 227
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 35 and 209-211
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 266-269 and 511
A Passion for Jean Prouvé, From Furniture to Architecture, The Laurence and Patrick Seguin Collection, exh. cat., Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Torino, 2013, pp. 56-63
Calder | Prouvé, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery and Galerie Patrick Seguin, 2013, p. 61
Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2022, p. 74-75
Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé: A Collection of Tamotsu Yagi, Venice, California, 2022, pp. 6 and 24-25 (for the present lot illustrated)
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