A CARPET, CIRCA 1925

Details

EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)
A CARPET, CIRCA 1925
hand-knotted wool
7 ft. 10 in. (241.3 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Delorenzo Gallery, New York.

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Lot Essay

cf. F. Camard, Ruhlmann: Master of Art Deco, New York, 1984, pp. 239 for a drawing of a carpet of this design.

This carpet is recorded under number 3006 NR (Nouveau Référencier) in the Ruhlmann Archives, Musée des Années Trente, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris.

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