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