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Lot Essay
cf. F. Marcilhac, Jean Dunand: His Life and Works, New York, 1991, pp. 137-138 for a discussion of Dunand's work on the L'Atlantique, p. 314, cat. no. 1072 for the 'Tiger'panels which Dunand designed for the L'Atlantique.
Prior to his commissions for the Normandie, Jean Dunand was invited by the Compagnie Sud-Atlantique to undertake part of the decoration for the Atlantique, another of the era's magnificent floating palaces. For the first-class dining-room on the majestic ocean liner, Dunand created four giant lacquered murals based on Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. The panels in the Greenberg collections - the present lot and lot 23 - are smaller-scale interpretations of elements from the Atlantique panels depicting the tiger and the elephant. The two other panels in the dining-room illustrated the buffalo and the panther. The Atlantique was launched in September, 1931, from Pauillac, and was to serve major South American ports but caught fire and sank in January 1933. The Dunand murals were lost.
Prior to his commissions for the Normandie, Jean Dunand was invited by the Compagnie Sud-Atlantique to undertake part of the decoration for the Atlantique, another of the era's magnificent floating palaces. For the first-class dining-room on the majestic ocean liner, Dunand created four giant lacquered murals based on Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. The panels in the Greenberg collections - the present lot and lot 23 - are smaller-scale interpretations of elements from the Atlantique panels depicting the tiger and the elephant. The two other panels in the dining-room illustrated the buffalo and the panther. The Atlantique was launched in September, 1931, from Pauillac, and was to serve major South American ports but caught fire and sank in January 1933. The Dunand murals were lost.