Jean Prouvé

"Visiteur" Armchair

Import Tariff

Auction Closed

June 10, 06:51 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Jean Prouvé

"Visiteur" Armchair

circa 1952

model no. 352

produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

painted steel, aluminum, oak, fabric upholstery

36 ½ x 27 ¾ x 34 in. (92.7 x 70.5 x 86.4 cm)

Ammann Gallery, Cologne

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2025

Jan van Geest, Jean Prouvé: Furniture, Cologne, 1991, pp. 73 and 91

Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 54-56 and 175

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, pp. 14 and 292-293

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 156-159

Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Paris and New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 164-165

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. 112-113

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