No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection

No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection

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Jean Prouvé

Pair of "Demountable" Chairs    

Auction Closed

June 5, 10:36 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jean Prouvé

Pair of "Demountable" Chairs


circa 1950

model no. 300

produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

beech, lacquered metal

32 ⅛ x 16 ¼ x 18 ½ (81.6 x 41.3 x 47 cm) each

DeLorenzo Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1991

Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 44-45

Laurence Allégret and Valérie Vaudou, eds., Jean Prouvé et Paris, Paris, 2001, p. 226

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 34 and 203-205

Catherine Dumont d'Ayot and Bruno Reichlin, eds., Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of the Technical Object, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2006, p. 305

Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Paris and New York, 2007, vol. 1, p. 69

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 260-265

A Passion for Jean Prouvé, From Furniture to Architecture, The Laurence and Patrick Seguin Collection, exh. cat., Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Torino, 2013, pp. 74-79

Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé: A Collection of Tamotsu Yagi, Venice, California, 2022, pp. 5 and 12 (for the present lot illustrated)

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