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

"Potence" Wall Light

Auction Closed

June 5, 10:36 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jean Prouvé

"Potence" Wall Light


circa 1952

model no. 602

produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

lacquered metal, oak

44 ¾ x 102 x 2 ⅛ in. (113.7 x 259 x 5.4 cm)

Air France headquarters, Brazzaville, Congo, 1952

Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1996

Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 142-143

Laurence Allégret and Valérie Vaudou, eds., Jean Prouvé et Paris, Paris, 2001, p. 241

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 168-169, illustration 1144.6

Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Paris and New York, 2007, vol 1, pp. 66-67, 175, and 190 (for the present lot illustrated)

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

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. 152-153

Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2022, pp. 134-135, 137, and 143

Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé: A Collection of Tamotsu Yagi, Venice, California, 2022, pp. 5-6 and 11-12 (for the present lot illustrated)