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JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)
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JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)

Important Bed 'Aux Nénuphars et Poissons' for Madame Philippe Bertholet, 13 Boulevard des Invalides, Paris, 1932

Closed7 December 2023

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JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)
Important Bed 'Aux Nénuphars et Poissons' for Madame Philippe Bertholet, 13 Boulevard des Invalides, Paris, 1932
lacquered wood, mother-of-pearl
60 x 76 5⁄8 x 87 in. (152.4 x 194.6 x 221 cm)
signed Jean Dunand

Madame Philippe Bertholet, wife of the Secretary General of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 13 Boulevard des Invalides, commissioned from the artist, circa 1930
Jean-Jacques Baumé, Paris
Christie's, New York, 1 October 1983, lot 220
DeLorenzo Gallery, New York
Steven A. Greenberg, New York
The Steven A. Greenberg Collection, Christie's, New York, 12-13 December 2012, lot 45
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

Dunand created two beds of this form. The other was decorated with fish and sea fronds (Marcilhac, 1991, cat. no. 514). Only three further beds are recorded in the catalogue raisonné, one without illustration (cat. no. 513), one of rectilinear form, designed by Serge Rovinsky for Nadine Oxnard and lacquered in Dunand's studio in 1928 (cat. no. 516), and one of gilded spruce decorated with floral motifs (cat. no. 1128).