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Louis Majorelle

“Nénuphars” Occasional Table

Auction Closed

April 22, 11:22 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Louis Majorelle

“Nénuphars” Occasional Table


circa 1900

mahogany, thuja burl, gilt bronze

32 ¼ in. (81.9 cm) high

30 ⅝ in. (77.7 cm) diameter

Macklowe Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above
Majorelle Nancy: décorations d'intérieurs, meubles, tentures, bronzes, ferronneries, sales catalogue, Nancy, n.d., n.p.
Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau Furniture, New York, 1982, p. 21, pl. 7
Alastair Duncan, Fin de Siècle Masterpieces from the Silverman Collection, New York, 1989, p. 114
Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle: Master of Art Nouveau Design, London, 1991, pl. 55
Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914 Volume III: Furniture, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1996, p. 387 (for a photograph of the model exhibited in the Jansen Showroom in Paris in 1902)
Michel Draguet, Treasures of Art Nouveau: Through the collections of Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet, Milan, 1999, pp. 32, 129 and 271
Pierre Kjellberg, Le Mobilier du XXème Siècle, Paris, 2000, p. 402