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