Design
Design
Property from an Important New York Collection
Jean Royère
Three Doors
Lot Closed
October 19, 04:16 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important New York Collection
Jean Royère
Three Doors
circa 1950
painted iron, brass
i: 102 1/4 x 35 3/8 x 1 3/8 in. (259.7 x 90.4 x 3.5 cm)
ii: 94 1/2 x 34 5/8 x 1 3/4 in. (240 x 87.8 x 4.4 cm)
iii: 99 1/4 x 34 7/8 x 1 3/8 in. (252 x 88.3 x 3.5 cm)
Commissioned directly from the artist by Gaston Dutilleul, Boulogne, France, circa 1950
Phillips New York, December 8, 2005, lot 144
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean Royère, Paris, 2002, p. 159 (for a discussion of the Dutilleul commissions)
Galerie Jacques Lacoste and Galerie Patrick Seguin, eds., Jean Royère: Vol. 1, Paris, 2012, p. 79
Gaston Dutilleul, president of the Federation Nationale de l'Enseignement Prive Laique, was a friend and regular patron of Jean Royère. From 1949-1972, Dutilleul commissioned Royère to create interiors and entryways for both his Paris townhouse and his residence in Boulogne. The present doors are from the Boulogne commission. Creating an elegant and functional screening device, they employ Royère's netted Tour Eiffel motif to an ideal purpose.