The Perelman Collection: Masterworks of Design

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Armand-Albert Rateau

An Important Vanity Table

Auction Closed

December 6, 07:17 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Armand-Albert Rateau

An Important Vanity Table


circa 1921

patinated bronze, white and black marble, mirrored glass, ivorine

stamped RATEAU/INVG/PARIS and numbered 1211 and 343 C

60½ x 35½ x 20¾ inches (153.7 x 90.2 x 52.7 cm)

Acquired through Peter Marino by the present owner, 1988
Yvonne Brunhammer, Le Style 1925, Paris, 1975, pp. 40-41
“The Loan Exhibition from the Paris Exhibition,” Good Furniture Magazine, April 1926, pl. 187
Victor Arwas, Art Deco, London, 1980, p. 82 
Alastair Duncan, Art Deco Furniture: The French Designers, New York, 1984, p. 147
Jean-Paul Bouillon, Art Deco: 1903- 1940, New York, 1989, p. 123
AA Rateau
, Delorenzo Gallery, New York, 1990, pp. 15 (for a period photograph of the model in the bedroom of Jeanne Lanvin), 26 and 61
Franck Olivier-Vial and Francois Rateau, Armand-Albert Rateau, Paris, 1992, pp. 37 and 40-41
Hélène Guéné, Décoration et Haute Couture; Armand-Albert Rateau pour Jeanne Lanvin, un autre Art déco, Paris, 2006, pp. 129, 131 and 153
Alastair Duncan, Art Deco Complete, New York, 2009, p. 76