LOT DETAILS

Materials:

mahogany, gilt bronze and leather upholstery

Measurements:

30.24 in. (76.80 cm.) (height) by 30.98 in. (78.70 cm.) (width) by 25.87 in. (65.70 cm.) (width)

Literature:

Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle, Master of Art Nouveau Design, New York, 1991, pl. 63. Roselyne Bouvier, Majorelle, une aventure moderne, Metz, 1991, p. 100 (for the model at the Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy). Chrisitan Debize, Emile Gallé, l'Ecole de Nancy, Metz, 1998, p. 31. Michel Draguet, L'Art Nouveau Retrouvé à Travers Les Collections Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet, Paris, 1999, pp. 266-267. Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany, The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, 2004, p. 622. Le Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, oeuvre choisies, Paris, 2012, pp. 61-62

Provenance:

Acquired in Paris by Mabel Chauvin Slagle, New Orleans, LA. Thence by descent to Merwin Hale Wilkinson Sr., Port Allen, LA, circa 1950. Thence by descent to Merwin Hale Wilkinson Jr., Lafayette, LA. Thence by descent to the present owner