Jean Dunand

Exhibited by DeLorenzo Gallery

Material A three panel folding dressing mirror in lacquered wood, laque arrachée and applied silver leaves.

Dimensions Height: 189 cm. (74 3/8 in.) Width: 85.3 cm. (33½ in.) Depth: 7 cm. (2¾ in.)

Place of Creation Paris, France

Status Vetted

About the Work

“Baigneuse”, 1927

A three panel folding dressing mirror in lacquered wood, laque arrachée and applied silver leaves. The front panel decorated with a bathing woman surrounded by stylized water, opening upon an inner panel decorated with a geometric pattern of spirals and zig-zags, all resting upon a rectangular base.

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Provenance

Sotheby’s Monaco, 11th of December 1995, lot 158.
Christie's Paris, Collection Claude et Simone Dray - Art Déco, 8th of June 2006, lot 73.
Private collection, New York, 2006 – 2020.

Literature

Harper’s Bazaar, April 1928, p.115.
Félix Marcilhac, Jean Dunand His Life and Works, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1991, p.93 (visible in a photograph of a 1927 exhibition at the Galerie Georges Petit), no. 560 in the catalogue raisonné.
Jean Dunand Jean Goulden, exhibition catalogue, Galerie du Luxembourg, Paris, May-July 1973, p103, no. 130.
Félix and Amélie Marcilhac, Jean Dunand, Editions Norma,2020, p. 317, fig. 5.
Amélie Marcilhac has viewed this piece and will update the image and details in the catalogue raisonné.