JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)

'GRAPE PICKER' A FOUR-PANEL MURAL, CIRCA 1935

Details

JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)
'GRAPE PICKER' A FOUR-PANEL MURAL, CIRCA 1935
molded and lacquered composite, gold leaf background
98 x 50¼ in. (249 x 127.5 cm.) overall size

Provenance

Christie's, New York, 12 December 1987, lot 311;
DeLorenzo Gallery, New York.

Literature

F. Marcilhac, Jean Dunand: His Life and Works, New York, 1991, p. 317, cat. no. 1097, pp. 143-148 for an in depth discussion of Dunand's work on Normandie including the 'Grape Harvesting and Dancing' panels.

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Lot Essay

cf. B. Fourcat et al., Normandie: Queen of the Seas, New York, 1985, pp. 78-79 for an illustration of the panels Dunand designed for the Smoking Room on Normandie.
F. Marcilhac, Jean Dunand: His Life and Works, New York, 1991, pp. 156-157 for an illustration of the reduced-scale version of the Normandie mural 'Grape Harvesting'.

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