'GONSE', A CHESTNUT BROWN LACQUERED ARMCHAIR
'GONSE', A CHESTNUT BROWN LACQUERED ARMCHAIR

JACQUES-EMILE RUHLMANN, CIRCA 1932

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'GONSE', A CHESTNUT BROWN LACQUERED ARMCHAIR
JACQUES-EMILE RUHLMANN, CIRCA 1932
model reference no. 278 NR
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high
stamped Ruhlmann
Provenance
A European industrialist, 1933
Christie's Geneva, Modern Illustrated Books and 20th Century Decorative Arts, May 18, 1992, lot 264
DeLorenzo Gallery, New York

Lot Essay

cf. Raymond Foulk, Centenary Exhibition, Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann 1879-1933, 1979, Foulk Lewis Collection ref. (XXVII).
See also: Florence Camard, Ruhlmann, Master of Art Deco, 1993, p. 159, model illustrated in a period photograph of the salon area in a Parisian collector's residence, circa 1930, and p. 261, model illustrated. A preliminary drawing for this armchair appears in a Ruhlmann sketchbook dated 1915.
See footnote to lot 109.

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