Important Design
Important Design
Bernard Laurent collection
Six sheet screen, in two parts
Live auction begins on:
May 20, 12:30 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
Lot Details
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.
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