LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Patinated Bronze

Measurements:

35.59 in. (90.40 cm.) (height) by 24.72 in. (62.80 cm.) (width) by 19.76 in. (50.20 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

one leg stamped A.A. Rateau INVR, the other stamped A.A. Rateau INVR 86 Paris 1793

Exhibited:

DeLorenzo Gallery, AA Rateau, New York, 1990.

Literature:

cf. Y. Brunhammer, 1925, Paris, 1976, p. 88. A. Duncan, Art Deco Furniture, London, 1984, p. 147 for an image of a chair of this model at the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1926. Exhibition catalogue, A. A. Rateau, DeLorenzo Gallery, New York, 1990, pp. 54-61. D. Ostergard, Art Deco Masterpieces, 1991, p. 71 for an illustration of a Blumenthal chair. F. Olivier-Vial and F. Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau, 1992, pp. 6 and 53, the model illustrated; p. 55 the Blumenthal swimming pool area with Rateau's furniture.

Provenance:

George and Florence Blumenthal, New York. DeLorenzo Gallery, New York. Robin Roberts, Bedford. Christie's, New York, The Estate of Robin Roberts, 18 December 2007, lot 417.