ID 880109
Lot 314 | JEAN PROUVÉ (1901-1984)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
Cité Tropique Desk, Model No. 501, circa 1951
painted steel, aluminium
28 3/4 x 35 7/8 x 27 1/2 in. (71.8 x 91.1 x 69.9 cm)
Provenance
Air France, Brazzaville, Congo
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 14 December 2004, lot 151
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Galerie Jousse Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, p. 131
P. Sulzer, Jean Prouvé Complete Works Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 1999, pp. 232-233 (for a drawing)
Vitra Design Museum, Jean Prouvé The Poetics of the Technical Object, Weil am Rhein, 2005, p. 316 (for a period photograph)
N. Peters, Prouvé, Cologne, 2006, p. 20
S. Dachs, et. al., Jean Prouvé: Objects and Furniture Design, Barcelona, 2007, pp. 36-37, 42
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, pp. 404, 410, 411 (present lot illustrated)
| Artist: | Jean Prouvé (1901 - 1984) |
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| Artist: | Jean Prouvé (1901 - 1984) |
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