A set of eight dining chairs, circa 1905

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ATTRIBUTED TO EUGÈNE GAILLARD
A set of eight dining chairs, circa 1905
mahogany, leather, brass nailheads
each 37 ¼ high x 16 ½ wide x 20 ½ in. deep (94.5 x 42 x 52 cm.)

Literature

A. Duncan, The Paris Salons, 1895-1914, Volume III: Furniture, Woodbridge, 1996, p. 214 for a related chair shown at la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1903-1904.

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Lot Essay

The design of these chairs can be closely related to a similar model, with sweeping legs and bold central splat, which Gaillard exhibited at La Sociéte Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1903-1904. Both can be compared to a chair he designed in 1899, that was then shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900, which Gaillard later said was the very first chair he designed for Bing’s gallery ‘L’Art Nouveau’.

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