No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection

No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection

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Jean Prouvé

"Antony" Chair

Auction Closed

June 5, 10:36 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jean Prouvé

"Antony" Chair


circa 1954

model no. 356

produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

beech plywood, lacquered metal

34 ¼ x 19 ⅞ x 24 ¾ in. (87 x 50.5 x 62.9 cm)

Jet Age Studio, San Francisco

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1996

Jan van Geest, Jean Prouvé: Furniture, Cologne, 1991, pp. 84-87 and 133

Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 149 and 163

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 272-273

Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Paris and New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 69 and 74

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 278-281, 493, and 511

Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2022, pp. 94-95

Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé: A Collection of Tamotsu Yagi, Venice, California, 2022, p. 4 (for the present lot illustrated)