ESTIMATE $50,000-70,000
PROVENANCE Galerie du Passage, Paris
LITERATURE Rosanjin Kitaoji Isamu Noguchi, exh. cat., Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1996, p. 163, cat. no. S20; Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., Isamu Noguchi, Sculptural Design, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2001, p. 297
This coffee table features four retractable shelves, each extending twelve inches. Signed with applied label to side: [Gabriella Crespi].
Literature: Jean Prouvé Complete Works, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Sulzer, pg. 289 Jean Prouvé, Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, ppg. 330, 334-335
Provenance: Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris | Delorenzo 1950, New York | Private collection
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Lit.: t spectrum, 1956/57 winter catalogue, cover illustration and pp. 10/11, cat. no. 53 - J. Clarijs, t spectrum modern meubelvormgeving en naoorlogs idealisme, Rotterdam 2002, p. 19, p. 64.
A further “Compas” work table figures in the collection of the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein. The latter was exhibited in: Jean Prouvé. Die Poetik des technischen Objekts (touring exhibition).
Provenance: Klaus Engelhorn Collection, Vienna, since 1998.
No. 1 from the limited edition of 6 + 2 AP.
Provenance: private property, Switzerland.
Lot 182 in Phillips de Pury's 24th April, 2010 Theme Sale of BRIC in London.
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Lot 291 in Sotheby's Sale of Important 20th century Design, 17 December 2009, New York.
From the Maison de la Tunisie, Cite Universitaire, Paris.
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Lot 251 in Sotheby's Sale of Important 20th century Design, 17 December 2009, New York.
Property from an important private collection.
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