Serge Mouille Unique and important six-arm ceiling light ca. 1958 Painted aluminum, painted tubular metal, brass. 33 × 77 × 70 in. (83.8 × 195.6 × 177.8 cm.), fully extended Produced by Atelier Serge Mouille for Louis Sognot, France.
Provenance Alan Grizot, Paris, France; DeLorenzo Gallery, New York; Private Collection, New York Exhibited Louis Sognot, Salon des arts ménagers, Paris, March 1958; Exposition universelle et internationale, Brussels, Belgium, 1958; "Jean Prouvé / Serge Mouille Two Master Metalworkers," DeLorenzo Gallery, New York, May 1985; Alan and Christine Counord, Paris, Fall 1985 Literature Anthony DeLorenzo, Alan and Christine Counord, Jean Prouvé / Serge Mouille Two Master Metalworkers, exh. cat., New York, 1985, illustrated p. 146; Pierre Émile Pralus, Serge Mouille a French Classic, Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or, 2006, illustrated pp. 95 and 196 Catalogue Essay Pierre Émile Pralus, author of Serge Mouille A French Classic, states that the designer produced no more than half a dozen of these large six-arm ceiling lights. During preparations for his 1985 exhibition at DeLorenzo Gallery, New York, Mouille declared the present lot to be the only example in black and white. Mouille, who rarely abandoned the dark end of the spectrum, only painted his "black forms" white at the request of decorator Louis Sognot, with whom he exhibited the present lot at the 1958 Salon des arts ménagers, Paris. Read More
Serge Mouille Unique and important six-arm ceiling light ca. 1958 Painted aluminum, painted tubular metal, brass. 33 × 77 × 70 in. (83.8 × 195.6 × 177.8 cm.), fully extended Produced by Atelier Serge Mouille for Louis Sognot, France.
Provenance Alan Grizot, Paris, France; DeLorenzo Gallery, New York; Private Collection, New York Exhibited Louis Sognot, Salon des arts ménagers, Paris, March 1958; Exposition universelle et internationale, Brussels, Belgium, 1958; "Jean Prouvé / Serge Mouille Two Master Metalworkers," DeLorenzo Gallery, New York, May 1985; Alan and Christine Counord, Paris, Fall 1985 Literature Anthony DeLorenzo, Alan and Christine Counord, Jean Prouvé / Serge Mouille Two Master Metalworkers, exh. cat., New York, 1985, illustrated p. 146; Pierre Émile Pralus, Serge Mouille a French Classic, Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or, 2006, illustrated pp. 95 and 196 Catalogue Essay Pierre Émile Pralus, author of Serge Mouille A French Classic, states that the designer produced no more than half a dozen of these large six-arm ceiling lights. During preparations for his 1985 exhibition at DeLorenzo Gallery, New York, Mouille declared the present lot to be the only example in black and white. Mouille, who rarely abandoned the dark end of the spectrum, only painted his "black forms" white at the request of decorator Louis Sognot, with whom he exhibited the present lot at the 1958 Salon des arts ménagers, Paris. Read More
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