A LARGE FIVE PANEL BLACK LACQUER SCREEN

EILEEN GRAY, CIRCA 1922

Details

A LARGE FIVE PANEL BLACK LACQUER SCREEN
Eileen Gray, circa 1922
112in. (286cm.) high, 15in. (38cm.) wide each panel

Sale room notice

The provenance for the pair of screens is as follows:
Eileen Gray
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco, May 25, 1980, lots 250 & 251
Robin Symes
Sotheby's, Important 20th Century Furniture, A Philip Johnson Townhouse, May 6, 1989, lots 92 & 93

Lot Essay

This screen and the following screen were originally designed for the Gallerie Jean Desert. Later, when the gallery closed, these screens were returned to Eileen Gray who used them to furnish her own apartment on rue Bonaparte.

cf. Peter Adam, Eileen Gray Architect/Designer, 1987, no.5