AN OAK ARMCHAIR
AN OAK ARMCHAIR

HENRY VAN DE VELDE, CIRCA 1897

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AN OAK ARMCHAIR
Henry van de Velde, circa 1897
34in. (86.3cm.) high
branded with artist's monogram and with label Brooklyn TL1980.103.152, painted in red 340.69
Provenance
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Christie's New York, October 1, 1983, lot 180
Private Collection

Lot Essay

cf. Wolf D. Pecher, Henry van de Velde: Das Gesamtwerk, 1981, pp. 102-103, and 218 and Klaus-Jurgen Sembach, Henry van de Velde, 1989, p. 51 for illustrations of the model. See Pecher, p. 265 and Sembach, p. 46 for period illustrations of the model in van de Velde's home.

See Pecher, p. 138; Sembach, p. 55 and 135; and Klaus-Jurgen Sembach and Birgit Schulte, Henry van de Velde, 1992, frontispiece, fig. 14 and p. 109 for illustrations of the model in period interiors.

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