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Jean Dunand Important dressing table with illuminated mirror circa 1930 Lacquered wood, sycamore, lacquered brass, patinated brass, illuminated mirrored glass. 44 x 62 1/2 x 25 in. (111.8 x 158.8 x 63.5 cm) Underside impressed four times with JEAN/DUNAND/LACQUEUR and JEAN DUNAND Side of one hinged drawer stenciled with the Garde Meuble monogram GM/E and numbered 9381.
Provenance Ateliers Jean Dunand Paris Mobilier National, Paris, 1941 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walker circa 1972 Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco, “Art Decoratifs Styles 1900 et 1925,” October 9, 1983, lot 284 Private collection Christie’s, New York, “Important 20th Century Decorative Arts,” December 13, 1996, lot 227 Acquired from the above following the auction Exhibited Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, Paris, 1930 Literature Le Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, Paris, 1930, illustrated pl. 39 Yvonne Brunhammer and Suzanne Tise, French Decorative Arts - The Société des Artistes Décorateurs 1900 - 1942, Paris, 1990, illustrated pp. 156, 182 Felix Marcilhac, Jean Dunand His Life and Works, New York, 1991, illustrated p. 118 Lisa Schlansker Kolosek, The Invention of Chic: Thérèse Bonney and Paris Moderne, New York, 2002, illustrated p. 99 Catalogue Essay Jean Dunand exhibited the present lot in 1930 in his “Boudoir” at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in Paris. In 1941 the dressing table was acquired by the Mobilier National, the French state collection of furniture and tapestries, as part of a larger purchase from Jean Dunand’s atelier. The Mobilier National acquired the work in an effort to keep the firm’s artisans employed during the Second World War, thereby saving them from being sent to Germany under the terms of a Nazi work program. In 1972 the dressing table was officially sold or “vendue par les domaines.” The armchair designed for use with the dressing table and exhibited with it in 1930 remains in the collection of the Mobilier National. Read More