Important Design

Important Design

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Property from an Important French Collection

Eugène Printz

Desk

Auction Closed

June 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important French Collection

Eugène Printz

Desk


circa 1930

palmwood, oxidized brass

monogrammed EP

29¼ x 70½ x 31¾ in. (74.3 x 179.1 x 80.6 cm)

Collection of André Malraux, former French Minister of Cultural Affairs, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
Thence by descent to the present owner
Meubles, Objets d’art: Galerie Eugène Printz, Paris, 1934, p. 16, pl. 58 (for a period photograph of a related model)
Art et Décoration, January 1935, n.p. (for a period photograph of a related model)
Guy Bujon and Jean-Jacques Dutko, Printz, Paris, 1986, pp. 155 (for a period photograph of the model) and 240