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EILEEN GRAY (1879-1976)

Lot 93
07.12.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 250 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1105310
Lot 93 | EILEEN GRAY (1879-1976)
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 350 000
EILEEN GRAY (1879-1976)

Important Headboard and Wall-Mounted Bookcase From Eileen Gray's Apartment, 21 Rue Bonaparte, Paris, circa 1930

wood, nickel-plated metal, glass, plastic

headboard: 31 ½ x 101 1⁄8 x 23 in. (80 x 258 x 58.5 cm)

bookcase: 43 ½ x 70 ½ x 9 1⁄8 in. (110.5 x 179 x 23.2 cm)





Provenance

Eileen Gray, 21 Rue Bonaparte, Paris, circa 1930

Jean-Michel Beurdeley, Paris

Sotheby's, Monte Carlo, 22 April 1990, lot 677

Galerie Doria, Paris

Laurent Negro, Château de Gourdon, Gourdon, France

Les Collections du Château de Gourdon, Christie’s, 31 March 2011, lot 797

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

J. Rykwert, "A Homage to Eileen Gray", Domus, no. 469, Milan, December 1968, p. 25, no. 469 (present lot illustrated)

B. Loye, Eileen Gray : 1879-1976: architecture, design, Paris, 1984, p. 25 (present lot illustrated)

P. Adam, Eileen Gray, Architect/Designer, New York, 1987, p. 336 (present lot illustrated)

P. Garner, Eileen Gray Designer and Architect, Cologne, 1993, p. 108 (present lot illustrated)

C. Constant and W. Wang, Eileen Gray an architecture for all senses, Tübingen, 1996, p. 129 (present lot illustrated)

P. Adam, Eileen Gray Her Life and Work, Munich, 2008, p. 143 (present lot illustrated)

J. Goff, Eileen Grey: her work and her world, Kildare, 2015, p. 284 (present lot illustrated)

C. Pitiot and N. Stritzler-Levine, Eileen Gray, exh. cat., Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2020, pp. 47, 388-389
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
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