Live Auction 2854Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design
JEAN PROUVE (1901-1984)
Lot 189 PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTOR

JEAN PROUVE (1901-1984)

A SUNSHUTTER FROM THE UNION AEROMARITIME DE TRANSPORT, CONAKRY, 1957

Closed12 June 2014

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JEAN PROUVE (1901-1984)
A SUNSHUTTER FROM THE UNION AEROMARITIME DE TRANSPORT, CONAKRY, 1957
aluminum, steel
111 1/2 in. (283.2 cm) high, 130 in. (330.2 cm.) wide, 37in. (94 cm) deep [variable]

Union Aéromaritime de Transport, Conakry, Africa;
Phillips de Pury, New York, 9 June 2010, lot 12.

Specialist note

cf. P. Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Oeuvre Complète, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, p. 297, figs. 1260.5,1 and 1260.5,2;
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 520-521 for images of the sun shutters in situ.

This lot is one of 20 existing examples designed for the French airline's regional office in Conakry, Republic of Guinea, Africa.