LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Black lacquered wood, steel, brass

Size Notes:

Each large brick: approx.; 213.4 cm: tall, variable width, as pictured: 177.8 cm

Exhibited:

'Picasso, Braque, Léger and the Cubist Spirit 1919-1939', Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, June 29-October 20, 1996

Literature:

Philippe Garner, Eileen Gray: Designer and Architect , Cologne, 1993, illustrated on the front cover, p. 48, fig. 5.Kenneth Wayne, Picasso, Braque, Léger and the Cubist Spirit 1919-1939 , exh. cat., Portland Museum of Art, Portland, 1996, illustrated p. 45.Peter Adam, Eileen Gray: Architect/Designe r, New York, 2000 (rev. ed.), illustrated p. 123, cat. rais. no. 3.4 .Peter Adam, Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work , Munich, 2008, illustrated p. 263.Roger Griffith, Margo Delidow, and Chris McGlinchey, ‘Peeling back the layers: Eileen Gray’s brick screens’, Studies in Conservation , vol. 57, 2012,illustrated p. S133, figs. 3-4.Jennifer Goff, Eileen Gray: Her Work and Her World , Sallins, 2015, illustrated p. 17, fig. 7

Provenance:

Jean Désert, Paris.Jean Badovici, Paris .Mr. & Mrs. Robert Walker, Paris .Private collection .Sotheby’s, New York, ‘Important 20th Century Furniture/A Philip Johnson Townhouse’, May 6, 1989, lot 91.Acquired from the above by the present owner