A RARE AND IMPORTANT WHITE LACQUERED SCREEN

Details

A RARE AND IMPORTANT WHITE LACQUERED SCREEN
BY EILEEN GRAY, CIRCA 1929

Consisting of thirty-eight panels, formed of rectangular segments --72in. (183cm.) high, 70in. (177.8cm.) wide, 3/4in. (1.5cm.) deep

Provenance

Pascal Giovoni, Grasse
Felix Marcilhac, Paris

Literature

Architectural Digest, "The Collectors: Felix Marcilhac in Paris", July/August, 1977, p. 60 illustrates this screen

Lot Essay

Philippe Garner, The Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1978, p. 31; Philippe Garner, Twentieth-Century Furniture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1980, p. 110 for illustrations of variants of this model; Janet Adams, Decorative Folding Screens, The Viking Press, New York, 1982, p. 664; Peter Adam, Eileen Gray, Architect/Designer, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1987, p.???