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

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Jean Prouvé

Curved "Compas" Desk

Auction Closed

June 5, 10:36 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

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Jean Prouvé

Curved "Compas" Desk


circa 1950

produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

laminated sapele, lacquered and enameled metal

28 ¼ x 77 ¼ x 37 in. (71.8 x 196.2 x 94 cm)

Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1996

Jean Prouvé/Serge Mouille, exh. cat., Antony DeLorenzo and Alan & Christine Counord, New York and Paris, 1985, p. 64 (for a related model)

Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 100-101 (for related models)

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 264-267 (for related models)

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, p. 350 (for a related model)