Design

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Lot 236
  • 236

Jean Dunand

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Paire de paravents à trois feuilles, vers 1930-1940
  • lacquered wood
  • Chaque feuille : 300 x 31 cm (Each leaf : 118 1/8 x 12 1/4 in.)
bois laqué rouge

Provenance

Appartement de M. Leleu, Paris
Acquis auprès du précédent par le propriétaire actuel

Condition

FR : État d'usage. Encrassement sur la surface. Quelques rayures, plus importantes sur la partie centrale d'un panneau. Traces de ruban adhésif. Sur un panneau un manque de laque, des craquelures et quelques soulèvement à proximité de la base.Seuls deux panneaux au revers sont laqués rouges. EN: Condition of use. Dirt throughout the surface. Some scratches, more important on the central part of one panel. Traces of adhesive tape. On one panel, close to the base, one lack of lacquer, some cracks in the lacquer and some lifting of lacquer. Only two panels are lacquered in red on the back.
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Catalogue Note

M. Leleu était le propriétaire d'une maison de tissu prestigieuse. Son appartement de l'avenue Hoche fut entièrement décoré par Eugène Printz avec le concours de Jean Dunand pour les réalisations laquées. L'appartement de M. Leleu figure dans un article du périodique Mobilier et Décoration en 1948 dédié à l'oeuvre d'Eugène Printz suite à son décès.

Mr Leleu owned a prestigious fabric company. His appartment in Paris, avenue Hoche, was completely furnished by Eugène Printz with the help of Jean Dunand for lacquered pieces. M. Leleu's appartment was reproduced in the article from Mobilier et Décoration of 1948 dedicated to Eugène Printz's work after his death.
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