Important Design
Important Design
Bernard Laurent collection
Aux Nénuphars sidetable
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May 20, 12:30 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Louis Majorelle
Aux Nénuphars sidetable
Designed circa 1902
Caribbean mahogany, snakewood and gilt bronze
90 x 95 x 95 cm ; 35 ½ x 37 ½ x 37 ½ in.
Bernard Laurent collection, Villefranche-sur-Mer
Thence by descent to the present owner
Exposition de l'Alliance provinciale des industries d'art. Ecole de Nancy, Union centrale des arts décoratifs, exhibition catalogue, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, 1903, n.p.
Le décor de la vie sous la IIIe République de 1870 à 1900, exhibition catalogue, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, April - July 1933 for a mention under number 1036
Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau Furniture, New York, 1982, p. 63
Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle, Master of Art Nouveau Design, New York, 1991, pl. 56 and p. 165
Roselyne Bouvier, Majorelle, Paris, 1991, p. 142
Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salon, 1895-1914, volume III Furniture, Paris, 2002, p. 389
Valérie Thomas, Musée de l’école de Nancy : œuvres choisies, Paris, 2009, p. 63
A pedestal table of this design was presented by Louis Majorelle at the Ecole de Nancy Exhibition in Paris in 1903.
A same model is in the collections of the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris (inv. 10317) and in the collections of the Musée de l'École de Nancy (inv.477).
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