Charlotte Perriand

"Forme Libre" Low Table

Import Tariff

Auction Closed

June 10, 06:51 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Charlotte Perriand

"Forme Libre" Low Table

circa 1956

produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

ash, lacquered metal

15 ⅛ x 45 ⅛ x 29 ¼ in. (38.4 x 114.6 x 74.3 cm)

Ammann Gallery, Cologne

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2022

Jean Prouvé, exh. cat., Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1998, p. 95

Mary McLeod, Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living, New York, 2003, p. 232

Charlotte Perriand, exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2005, pp. 158 and 159

Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Un Art d’Habiter, Paris, 2005, p. 434 (for a related example) and pp. 394 and 429 (for production drawings of the model)

Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, ed., Jean Prouvé, Vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 175

Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, Complete Works Volume 3, 1956-1968, Paris, 2015, pp. 100 (for a sketch of the model) and 101

Sébastian Cherruet and Jacques Barsac, eds, Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a New World, exh. cat., Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2019, p. 334 (for a related example)

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