A PAIR OF PAINTED AND GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIRS, 1920

Details

ARMAND ALBERT RATEAU (1882-1938)
A Pair of Painted and Giltwood Side Chairs, 1920
35 3/8 in. (90.2 cm.) high, the other: 35¾ in. (90.8 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Private collection, France.
with Galerie Yves Gastou, Paris.
Walter Haas, Zurich.

Lot Essay

cf. DeLorenzo Gallery, AA Rateau, New York, 1990, p. 42 for an illustration of chairs of this model in Rateau's gilding workshop in Neuilly-Levallois.

F. Olivier-Vial, F. Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau, Paris, 1992, p. 86 for an illustration of the Blumenthal ballroom with chairs of this model.

Chairs of this model originally were designed for the ballroom of the Blumenthal residence, New York.

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