Design
Design
Property from a Private Collection, New York
Auction Closed
October 7, 07:54 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, New York
JULES LELEU
RUG
circa 1920s
hand-woven wool
with woven signature LELEU
120½ in. (306 cm) diameter
Y&B Bolour, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1994
Bernard Champigneulle, "La Participation de la France à l'Exposition de Bruxelles," Mobilier et Décoration, Paris, no. 1, January 1935, p. 308 (for a period photograph of the rug design at the 1936 Exposition in Brussels)
Viviane Jutheau, Jules et André Leleu, Paris, 1989, pp. 68-69 (for related examples)
Jacques Sirat and Françoise Siriex, Tapis français du XXe siècle: De l'art nouveau aux créations contemporaines, Paris, 1993, p. 147 (for the above period photograph)