No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection
No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection
A Rare "Kangourou" Armchair
Auction Closed
June 5, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean Prouvé
A Rare "Kangourou" Armchair
circa 1950
model no. FV22
produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France
lacquered steel, lacquered metal, oak
offered together with two fabric cushions
33 ½ x 27 ¼ x 32 in. (85 x 69.2 x 81.3 cm)
Collaborator of Jean Prouvé, Nancy
Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999
Dominique Clayssen, Jean Prouvé: l'idée constructive, Paris, 1983, pp. 152 and 166
Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 56-57
Jan van Geest, Jean Prouvé: Furniture, Cologne, 1991, p. 91
Jean Prouvé: La Biennale di Venezia, Paris, 2000, pp. 42 and 44
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, p. 14
Laurence Allégret and Valérie Vaudou, eds., Jean Prouvé et Paris, Paris, 2001, p. 230
Jean Prouvé, 1901-1984: Constructeur, Paris, 2001, p. 104
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, p. 161
Catherine Dumont d'Ayot and Bruno Reichlin, eds., Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of the Technical Object, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2006, p. 303
Tamotsu Yagi, The Graphic Eye of Tamotsu Yagi, Tokyo, 2011, p. 26 (for the present lot illustrated)
Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Paris and New York, 2007, vol. 1, p. 191 (for the present lot illustrated)
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 292-294
A Passion for Jean Prouvé, From Furniture to Architecture, The Laurence and Patrick Seguin Collection, exh. cat., Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Torino, 2013, p. 113
Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2022, p. 91
Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé: A Collection of Tamotsu Yagi, Venice, California, 2022, pp. 4, 12, and 30 (for the present lot illustrated)
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