Jean Prouvé

Cité Tropique Desk

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June 15, 04:13 PM GMT

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15,000 - 20,000 USD

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Lot Details

Description

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

Jean Prouvé

Cité Tropique Desk

circa 1951

model no. 501

produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

lacquered steel, painted aluminum

28 ⅜ x 35 ½ x 27 ½ in. (72.1 x 90.2 x 69.9 cm)

Private Collection, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2016

Galerie Jousse Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, p. 131

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé Complete Works Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 1999, pp. 232-233 (for a drawing)

Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of the Technical Object, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2005, p. 316 (for a period photograph)

Nils Peters, Prouvé, Cologne, 2006, p. 20

Sandra Dachs, et. al., Jean Prouvé: Objects and Furniture Design, Barcelona, 2007, pp. 36-37 and 42

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, pp. 404 and 410-411

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