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Property from a Private Collection, New York

JULES LELEU | RUG

Auction Closed

October 7, 07:54 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

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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)