Jean Prouvé

"Potence" Wall Light

Import Tariff

Auction Closed

June 10, 06:51 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Jean Prouvé

"Potence" Wall Light

circa 1952

produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

tubular steel, sheet steel, cable

12 ⅛ x 59 ½ x 1 in. (30.8 x 151.1 x 2.5 cm)

Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2013

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 168-169 (for related examples)

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 374-375 and 377

Calder | Prouvé, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery and Galerie Patrick Seguin, 2013, p. 79

Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2022, pp. 46-47

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