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Of Form & Color: Art & Design from the Emmanuel de Bayser Collection

Jean Prouvé

"Demountable" Chair

Auction Closed

June 10, 06:51 PM GMT

Estimate

18,000 - 24,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Of Form & Color: Art & Design from the Emmanuel de Bayser Collection

Jean Prouvé

"Demountable" Chair


circa 1950

model no. 300

produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

beech, lacquered metal

32 x 16 ⅛ x 19 in. (81.3 x 41 x 48.3 cm)

Private Collection Jarl Bruksmann, Norway

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2023

Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 44-45

Laurence Allégret and Valérie Vaudou, eds., Jean Prouvé et Paris, Paris, 2001, p. 226

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 34 and 203-205

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, p. 305

Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Paris and New York, 2007, vol. 1, p. 69

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 260-265

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. 74-79