JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964)

Lot 243
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ID 778878
Lot 243 | JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964)
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JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964)

Panel from the Mural 'The Rape of Europa' from the Grand Salon of the S.S. Normandie, circa 1934

executed by Jacques Charles Champigneulle, Paris

verre églomisé, pegamoid backing

48 3⁄4 x 31 1⁄2 in. (123.8 x 80 cm) (unframed)

inscribed 4th Row S-F #7





Provenance

S.S. Normandie, Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, circa 1935-1939

Deco Deluxe, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992



Literature

L. Reade, "The French Line Quadruple-screw Turbo-electric North Atlantic Steamship: Normandie", Ocean Liners of the Past: No. 5 in a series of reprints from 'The Shipbuilder & Marine Engine Builder', Greenwich, 1970, p. 119, fig. 5 and 6, and pl. XI (for a period photograph of the Grand Salon), 123, fig. 17 (present lot illustrated)

B. Foucart, et al., Normandie: Queen of the Seas, New York, 1985, pp. 70-71 (for a period photograph of the Grand Salon), 72 (for a cartoon of the mural)

Y. Masutani, et al., Fantastic Voyage: Luxury and Sophistication on the Ocean Liners, Osaka, 1996, pp. 66 (for an illustration of the Grand Salon), 67, no. P27 (for a period photograph of the Grand Salon)

J. Maxtone-Graham, Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner, New York, 2007, pp. 92, 206, 215, 221, 249 (for period photographs of the Grand Salon)

J. Goss, French Art Deco, New York, 2014, p. 92 (for a period photograph of the Grand Salon)

F. Marcilhac and A. Marcilhac, Jean Dunand, Paris, 2020, p. 165 (for a period photograph of the Grand Salon)



Exhibited

San Francisco, California, International Airport SFO Museum, S.S. Normandie, May 2004 - January 2005, no. 355
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