Important Design
Important Design
Property from the Collection of Jean Denoyer
Auction Closed
July 30, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Jean Denoyer
EDGAR BRANDT AND DAUM
"LA TENTATION" FLOOR LAMP
designed circa 1920, executed between 1920-1926
gilt bronze, pâte de verre
shade incised DAUM NANCY FRANCE with the Croix de Lorraine
base impressed E. BRANDT
66⅜ in. (168.6 cm) high
18⅛ in. (46.2 cm) diameter of shade
Private Collection, circa 1930s
Thence by descent
Artcurial Paris, November 27, 2018, lot 69
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Catalogue Galeries Edgar Brandt, Paris, 1930, n.p.
Art & Antiques, March 1993, cover
Joan Kahr, Edgar Brandt: Master of Art Deco Ironwork, New York, 1999, p. 156
Joan Kahr, Edgar Brandt: Art Deco Ironwork, New York, 2010, p. 133
Sarah D. Coffin and Stephen Harrison, The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, exh. cat., Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 2017, p. 36
Sotheby's would like to thank Joan Kahr for her assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.