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Lot 107 PROPERTY FROM THE STEVEN A. GREENBERG COLLECTION: MASTERPIECES OF ART DECO
EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)
A 'MEUBLE À FARDS', CIRCA 1926-27
Closed12 June 2014
Price Realised
USD 281,000
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Specialist note
cf. R. Foulk, Centenary Exhibition, Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann 1879-1933, London, 1979, Foulk Lewis Collection, cat. no. XXVI;
P. Kjellberg, Art Déco: les Maîtres du Mobilier, Paris, 1981, p. 158 for another model in burl amboyna;
E. Bréon and R. Pepall, Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Années 30, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris, 2004, p. 225, cat. 37 for a variant of this model.
Reference no. 1524AR-2302NR in the Ruhlmann Archives, Musée des Années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt.
There are a number of recorded variants of this cabinet. One, also in macassar ebony, is a more simple geometric form compared to the present example with the fluted pediment and central section accentuated with an octagonal motif and partially fluted stepped base. Ruhlmann made another cabinet in burl amboyna with a silvered-bronze plaque by Janniot. A further example, lacquered in red with fluted front was made for the wealthy Northern French textile manufacturer Louis Nicolle.
P. Kjellberg, Art Déco: les Maîtres du Mobilier, Paris, 1981, p. 158 for another model in burl amboyna;
E. Bréon and R. Pepall, Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Années 30, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris, 2004, p. 225, cat. 37 for a variant of this model.
Reference no. 1524AR-2302NR in the Ruhlmann Archives, Musée des Années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt.
There are a number of recorded variants of this cabinet. One, also in macassar ebony, is a more simple geometric form compared to the present example with the fluted pediment and central section accentuated with an octagonal motif and partially fluted stepped base. Ruhlmann made another cabinet in burl amboyna with a silvered-bronze plaque by Janniot. A further example, lacquered in red with fluted front was made for the wealthy Northern French textile manufacturer Louis Nicolle.