ARMAND ALBERT RATEAU, CIRCA 1919-1920

cf. Franck Olivier and Franois Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau, 1992, pp. 6 and 53 for illustrations of the model no. 1793 armchair and p. 55 for a period photograph showing three model no. 1793 armchairs in the patio area of Mr. and Mrs. George Blumenthal's indoor swimming in their Manhattan townhouse at 50 East 70th Street; Derek Ostergard, Art Deco Masterpieces, 1991 p. 71 for an illustration of a 'Blumenthal' armchair; The Delorenzo Gallery, A.A. Rateau (exh. cat.), 1990, p. 56 for an illustration of a detail of the model and for a period photograph of the model with eleven instead of the usual nine rows of fish along the seat back, p. 57 for an illustration of an additional pair of 'Blumenthal' armchairs that are presently in two private collections in the United States, pp. 54-55 for another period photograph of the Blumenthal's pool, showing two armchairs, and p. 68 for a period photograph of a view of Mme. Rateau's bedroom in the family's Paris home, depicting an example of the armchair that was given by her to the Museé des Arts Décoratifs, Paris in 1938; Pierre Kjellberg, Art Deco, Les Maitres du Mobilier, p. 141 for an illustration of the armchair model.

See also The Delorenzo Gallery, A.A. Rateau (exh. cat.), 1990, p. 61 and Alastair Duncan, Art Deco Furniture, 1984, fig. 197 for a period photograph of the model no. 1793 armchair that was part of an ensemble, consisting of a pair of Petit Lampadaire, a coiffeuse and a guéridon, that traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for inclusion in an exhibition of modern French decorative arts in 1926.