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Collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg: Design Masters

Ivan da Silva Bruhns

Carpet

Auction Closed

April 22, 07:10 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg: Design Masters

Ivan da Silva Bruhns

Carpet


circa 1929

produced by Manufacture de Savigny, France

hand-knotted wool

woven da Silva Bruhns with the manufacturer's monogram and marked MADE IN FRANCE on the reverse

138 ½ x 101 ¾ in. (351.8 x 258.4 x 1.6 cm)

DeLorenzo Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owners

Albert Lévy, ed., Répertoire du Goût Moderne, no. 2, Paris, 1929, pl. 34

Georges Rémon, "Tapis Modernes: Les Dernières Créations de da Silva Bruhns," Mobilier et Décoration, no. 3, March 1929, pp. 98 and 103 (for related examples)

Pierre Passebon, Jacques Grange, Paris, 2008, n.p. (for the present lot illustrated)

Sotheby’s would like to thank Elisabeth Poole Parker for her assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.