JEAN PROUVE (1901-1984)

AN ALUMINUM, PLYWOOD AND GLASS 'PORTHOLE' PANEL, CIRCA 1950

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JEAN PROUVE (1901-1984)
An Aluminum, Plywood and Glass 'Porthole' Panel, circa 1950
manufactured by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Maxéville, mounted on modern display base
91 1/8 in. (231.5 cm.) high, 41 in. (104 cm.) wide, 2 in. (5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Co-worker of Jean Prouvé.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Jean Prouvé # Aluminium, Galerie 54, Paris, 2004, u.p.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie 54, Jean Prouve # Aluminium, September 2004.

Lot Essay

cf. P. Sulzer, Jean Prouvé Oeuvre Complète/Complete Works Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basle, 2005, pp. 130, 195 for the Casino de la Grande Côte, Royan showing panels with the same number of portholes as the panels offered here, pp. 199, 304 and 322 for variations of this panel.
Exhibition catalogue, Jean Prouvé Constructeur 1901-1984, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Paris, 2001, p. 107, no. 125 for an illustration of the Casino de la Grande Côte, Royan with similar panels.
Exhibition catalogue, Jean Prouvé Constructeur, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1990, pp. 169, 171 for variations of this panel.

The present panel and the following lot are variants of panels Jean Prouvé designed for the Casino de la Grande Côte, 1951, and the Palais des Congrès, 1954, both in Royan.
Both panels were acquired by a co-worker of Jean Prouvé at the time of the closure of the Maxéville workshop and never mounted in a building.

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