Important Design

Important Design

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 42. Six sheet screen, in two parts.

Bernard Laurent collection

Katsu Hamanaka

Six sheet screen, in two parts

Live auction begins on:

May 20, 12:30 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

Katsu Hamanaka


Double-sided six sheet screen, in two parts


1938

Lacquered wood, partially engraved gold leaf and gold powder decoration, brass hinges

Signed Hamanaka on the left sheet and with a Japanese inscription meaning “made in Showa 13” for the year 1938

Height : 182 cm ; 71 ⅝ in.

Sheet width : 60 cm ; 23 ⅝ in.

Overall lenght : 360 cm ; 141 ¾ in.

Bernard Laurent collection, Villefranche-sur-Mer

Thence by descent to the present owner

Renée Moutard-Uldry, "Le Salon des Artistes Décorateurs", Beaux-Arts, May 13 1938, p. 8

Jean Galotti, "Le XVIIIe salon des décorateurs", Art et Décoration, July 1938, p. 223

Gabriel Mourey, "Le XVIIIe salon de la Société des Artistes Décorateurs", Mobilier et Décoration, July - August 1938, p. 227

XXVIIIe Salon des Artistes décorateurs, exhibition catalogue, Société des artistes décorateurs, Paris, May 7 - July 10 1938, p. 84, the model referenced

This model of screen was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in Paris in 1938.

This is most likely the work we are presenting.