JACQUES-EMILE RUHLMANN, PIANO WORKS BY GAVEAU, CIRCA 1931

Details

A MACASSAR EBONY, AMBOYNA, IVORY AND BRONZE BABY GRAND PIANO**
JACQUES-EMILE RUHLMANN, PIANO WORKS BY GAVEAU, CIRCA 1931
piano No. 89795
39½in. (100.3cm.) high (closed), 55½in. (141cm.) wide, 59in. (149.8cm.) deep
with inlaid Ruhlmann signature

Provenance

Raymond Foulk
Christie's New York, May 26, 1983, lot 281
Michael Chow
Delorenzo Gallery, New York

Literature

Raymound Foulk, Centenary Exhibition, Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann 1879-1933, 1979, no. XXIX, for illustrations of this piano.
Paul Goldberger, "A Manhattan Cabinet, The Modernist Vocabulary Expressed in Wood" in Architectural Digest, July 1995, p. 52.

Exhibited

London, Foulk Lewis Collection, Ruhlmann Centenary Exhibition, 1979

Special notice

Notice Regarding the Sale of Material from Endangered Species. Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country

Lot Essay

Rulhmann designed six pianos in the course of his career. The design of the present piano takes a traditional form and, with subtle changes and modifications, creates a wholly modern and supremely elegant counterpart, uniquely identifiable as Ruhlmann's work.

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