Sun Shutter
Auction Closed
June 5, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean Prouvé
Sun Shutter
circa 1957
produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France
aluminum
104 x 129 ½ x 4 ¾ in. (264.2 x 329 x 12.1 cm)
Union Aéromaritime de Transport (UAT), Conakry, Guinea, circa 1957
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 296-297
Catherine Dumont d'Ayot and Bruno Reichlin, eds., Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of the Technical Object, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2006, pp. 214-215
Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Paris and New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 111 and 116
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 520-521
Tamotsu Yagi, The Graphic Eye of Tamotsu Yagi, Tokyo, 2011, p. 24 (for the present lot illustrated)
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. 184-185 and 188-189
Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2022, pp. 17, 137, 145, and 196 (for the present lot illustrated)
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