Side table, circa 1925

Details

JEAN-MICHEL FRANK (1895-1941)
Side table, circa 1925
executed by Chanaux & Pelletier, Paris
parchment, walnut
16 1⁄2 x 21 5⁄8 x 15 3⁄4 in. (42 x 55 x 40 cm)
impressed 6577 CP

Provenance

Camard & Associés, Paris, 17 June 2003, lot 160
Private Collection
Phillips, New York, 11 December 2012, lot 37
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

L. D. Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank. Adolphe Chanaux, Paris, 1980, pp. 120 and 181 (the model in Madame Spitzer's apartment)
L. D. Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 1997, pp. 128-129 and 207 (the model in François Mauriac's apartment, Paris and in Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles' apartment, Paris)
Jean-Michel Frank, Un décorateur dans le Paris des années 30, exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 2009, p. 94
L. Verchère et. al., Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 2018, p. 264

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Lot Essay

This lot is accompanied by a certificate from the Comité Jean-Michel Frank.

Another example of the model, formerly in the collection of François Mauriac, is in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (inv. LOUVRE OAP 605).

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