Important Design

Important Design

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EUGÈNE PRINTZ | DESK

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