ID 1442683
Lot 104 | JEAN PROUVÉ (1901-1984)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
Set of Six 'Métropole' Chairs, Model No. 305, designed circa 1950
produced by Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Maxéville, France
painted folded sheet and tube steel, birch plywood
31 ¾ x 16 ¼ x 18 ½ in. (79.5 x 41.3 x 47 cm) (each)
Provenance
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
B. Huber and J.-C. Steinegger eds., Jean Prouvé, une architecture par l’industrie, Zurich, 1971, pp. 146-147
Galerie Jousse-Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Milan, 1998, pp. 14, 41, 143, 167, 171, 179, 183
L. Allégret and V. Vaudou, Jean Prouvé et Paris, exh. cat., Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, 2001, p. 227, nos. 19, 20
P. Sulzer, Jean Prouvé. Oeuvre complète/Complete works. Volume 3 : 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 14, 35, 210, no. 1207.3
Jean Prouvé, The Poetics of the Technical Object, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2005, p. 305
A passion for Jean Prouvé. From furniture to architecture. The Laurence and Patrick Seguin collection, exh. cat., Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli and Galerie Patrick Seguin, Turin-Paris, 2013, pp. 12, 31-33, 40-41, 56-63, 116, 271-272, 275
Calder/Prouvé, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery-Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, 2013, pp. 61, 180
Galerie Patrick Seguin, ed., Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Chandigarh, India, 1951-66, Paris, 2014, pp. 227, 231, 235, 263
Jean Prouvé, vol. 1, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, 2017, pp. 88-93, 99, 171, 267, 300, 309, 409-410
Jean Prouvé, vol. 2, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, 2017, pp. 60-61, 66-67, 80, 84-85, 122-123, 137, 169, 202, 232, 235-236, 238-239, 251, 276-277, 279, 285-287
Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, Galerie Patrick Seguin-Tamatso Yagi Design-Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Paris, 2022, pp. 2, 13-15, 23, 33, 74, 76, 126-127, 135, 193
| Artist: | Jean Prouvé (1901 - 1984) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Wood, Steel |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs |
| Artist: | Jean Prouvé (1901 - 1984) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Wood, Steel |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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