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    Collection d'un Amateur provenant d'un hôtel particulier de la Rive Gauche

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    2 July 2008

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    • ANDRE ARBUS (1903-1969) ET VAD
    Lot 342

    ANDRE ARBUS (1903-1969) ET VADIM ANDROUSOV (1895-1975)

    PAIRE DE FAUTEUILS, VERS 1940

    Price realised

    EUR 86,900

    Estimate

    EUR 20,000 - EUR 30,000

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    ANDRE ARBUS (1903-1969) ET VADIM ANDROUSOV (1895-1975)
    PAIRE DE FAUTEUILS, VERS 1940
    En acajou d'Afrique, le dossier rectangulaire et l'assise regainés de cuir fauve, les bras reposant sur des supports d'accotoirs à buste de femme en bronze doré, reposant sur deux pieds antérieurs gaine finissant par un petit sabot en laiton doré, les pieds arrière sabre
    Hauteur: 85 cm. (33½ in.), Largeur: 66 cm. (20 in.), Profondeur: 56 cm. (22 in.) (2)

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Cf: Yvonne Brunhammer, André Arbus, Norma éditions, Paris, 1996, p. 314
    Judith Miller, Classic style, Mitchell Beazley, Reed Consumer Limited, 1998, p. 101
    Esther Henwood,Les enchères du rêve, AD France, mai 2008, N. 74, p. 165


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    Special Notice

    No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT payable at 19.6% (5.5% for books) will be added to the buyer’s premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis
    Artist''s Resale Right ("droit de Suite"). If the Artist''s Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist''s collection agent.


    Post Lot Text

    A PAIR OF AFRICAN MAHOGANY LEATHER UPHOLSTERED AND GILT BRONZE ARMCHAIRS BY ANDRE ARBUS AND VADIM ANDROUSOV, CIRCA 1940


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