Important Design

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Property from the Collection of Jean Denoyer

EDGAR BRANDT AND DAUM | "LA TENTATION" FLOOR LAMP

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.