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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NEW YORK COLLECTION Jean Royère Pair of ‘demi-corbeille’ wall lights circa 1948 Painted tubular metal, painted metal, paper shades (2). Each: 22 1/4 x 30 x 16 in (56.5 x 76.2 x 40.6 cm)
Provenance Sotheby’s, London, '20th Century Decorative Arts & Design', April 6, 2000, lot 146 Literature Yvonne Brunhammer, Les Styles des Années 30 a 50, Paris, 1987, p. 103 Patrick Favardin, Le Style 50, Un Moment de L'Art Français, Brussels, 1987, p. 47 Jacques Lacoste, Jean Royère exh. cat., Galerie Jacques Lacoste, Paris, 1999, pp. 44-46 for similar examples Catherine and Stéphane de Beyrie and Jacques Ouaiss, Jean Royère New York, 2000, p. 33 for similar examples Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean Royère Paris, 2002, pp. 129, 200, p. 286 for a similar example Catalogue Essay Royère installed similar demi-corbeille wall lights at the French consulate in Alexandria in 1948 and the following year at the French legation in Helsinki. Read More Artist Bio Jean Royère French • 1902 - 1981 Jean Royère took on the mantle of the great artistes décorateurs of 1940s France and ran with it into the second half of the twentieth century. Often perceived as outside of the modernist trajectory ascribed to twentieth-century design, Royère was nonetheless informed by and enormously influential to his peers. Having opened a store in Paris in 1943 before the war had ended, he was one of the first to promote a new way of life through interior decoration, and his lively approach found an international audience early on in his career. In addition to commissions in Europe and South America, Royère had a strong business in the Middle East where he famously designed homes for the Shah of Iran, King Farouk of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan. The surrealist humor and artist's thoughtful restraint that he brought to his furniture designs continue to draw admiration to this day. View More Works