No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection
No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection
Jean Prouvé
Unique Illuminated Table for Dr. Gaston Vichard
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June 5, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean Prouvé
Unique Illuminated Table for Dr. Gaston Vichard
circa 1944
produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France
lacquered metal with two period tubuluar LED rods
offered together with two alternate frosted and clear glass tops
29 ¾ x 78 ½ x 37 in. (75 x 199.4 x 94 cm) as pictured
Commissioned directly from the artist by Dr. Gaston Vichard, personal friend of the artist, Vesoul, France, circa 1944
Thence by descent in the Vichard family
Galerie Cremniter-Laffanour, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, pp. 33 and 306-307 (for the present lot illustrated and for a drawing of the present form)
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. 312
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 420-422 (for the present lot illustrated and for a drawing of the present form)
Tamotsu Yagi, The Graphic Eye of Tamotsu Yagi, Tokyo, 2011, p. 26 (for the present lot illustrated)
Galerie Downtown – François Laffanour, Living with Charlotte Perriand, Paris, 2019, p. 261 (for the present lot illustrated)
Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé: A Collection of Tamotsu Yagi, Venice, California, 2022, pp. 13-15, 18, and dust jacket (for the present lot illustrated)
Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2022, p. 44 (for the present lot illustrated)
Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, July 16 - October 16, 2022
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