PAULE LELEU (1900-1987)

cf. E. Rolin, La Maison Leleu, Paule Leleu, Créatrice de Tapis, diss., Paris IV La Sorbonne, 2003, references this carpet.

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The original gouache sketch of this carpet is in the collection of the Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Roubaix, France. The gouache, also called La Piscine, was referenced by Paule Leleu under the number 524.
A black and white photograph of a Leleu interior showing an identical carpet is in the permanent collection of the Musée des Années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

We thank Madame Emilie Rolin for her kind assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.