Important Design
Important Design
Auction Closed
July 30, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
EUGÈNE PRINTZ
DESK
circa 1932
palmwood, patinated wrought-iron
with the artist's impressed cachet
28⅜ x 57¾ x 26½ in. (72 x 146.5 x 67.3 cm)
Collection of André Malraux, former French Minister of Cultural Affairs, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
Thence by descent to the present owner
Henri Clouzot, "Intérieurs Modernes," L'Illustration, May 1933, p. 18
Henri Clouzot, "Eugène Printz, Meublier et Architecte," Mobilier et Décoration, 1934, p. 421
Marcel Zahar, "Le 24ème Salon des Artistes Décorateurs," Art et Industrie, June 1934, pp. 21-22
Bernard Champigneulle, "Entretien avec Eugène Printz," Mobilier et Décoration, 1936, pp. 164 and 175
1930: Quand le Meuble devient Sculpture, exh. cat., Louvre des Antiquaires, Paris, 1981, no. 72
Pierre Kjellberg, Art Déco: Les Maîtres du Mobilier, le Décor des Paquebots, Paris, 1986, p. 188
Guy Bujon and Jean-Jacques Dutko, E. Printz, Paris, 1986, pp. 72-73, 222 (for a gouache drawing of the model) and 254 (for a rosewood variant of the model)
Pierre Kjellberg, Le Mobilier du XXème Siècle, Paris, 2000, p. 510