Jean Prouvé and Charlotte Perriand - Design London Tuesday, April 27, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Air France building, Brazzaville, Congo; Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France

  • Exhibited

    Jean Prouvé, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, 22 February-22 March 2003

  • Literature

    Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, p. 223 for a similar example in Jean Prouvé’s home; Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, p. 488

  • Catalogue Essay

    There are only eight existing examples of this large size.  In addition to eight smaller examples.

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Large ‘Afrique’ room divider, from the Air France building, Brazzaville, Congo

c. 1952
Painted bent steel, mahogany. 
282 x 252 x 23.5 cm. (111 x 99 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Manufactured by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, France.

Estimate
£25,000 - 35,000 

Design

28 April 2010
London