Important Design
Important Design
Property from the Estate of a Private Collector, New York
Edgar Brandt
"La Tentation" Floor Lamp
Auction Closed
December 8, 07:38 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of a Private Collector, New York
Edgar Brandt
"La Tentation" Floor Lamp
circa 1920-1926
patinated bronze, molded glass
66 in. (167.6 cm) high
17¾ in. (43.8 cm) diameter
Catalogue Galeries Edgar Brandt, Paris, 1930, n.p.
Art & Antiques, March 1993, front 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
Art & Antiques, March 1993, front 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.