ANDRÉ ARBUS (1903-1969) DECORATOR & VADIM ANDROUSOV (189 - Lot 90

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ANDRÉ ARBUS (1903-1969) DECORATOR & VADIM ANDROUSOV (189 - Lot 90
ANDRÉ ARBUS (1903-1969) DECORATOR & VADIM ANDROUSOV (1895-1975) SCULPTOR - COLLECTION HENRI THEVENIN (1892-1946) Female masks, the model created in [1934] and having competed for the Blumenthal Prize that same year, our table made around 1934 and initially from a pair A middle table, forming a flat desk, made of meshed sycamore and plain bleached sycamore. The four legs, very slightly Sabre type and joined two by two by curvilinear struts underlined by rushes, receive each one a mascaron title carved in application. The tray, with rounded corners, received by a thin belt underlined by a rush in projection on its circumference. State of use, small accidents and scattered damages, two parts of the rushes at the base of the feet are missing. Height : 71,5 cm - Length : 179 cm - Width : 80 cm Provenance and history : - Henri Thévenin Collection (1892-1946), intimate of the artist (met on the benches of the Faculty of Law in Toulouse). Work realized by André Arbus around 1934 for the Parisian apartment of his friend, rue de Tournon (VIe). This table formed a pair, in the entrance of the apartment, with a second one sold on November 21, 2016 by Christie's Paris under the number 124 of the catalog. - Work remained in the descent of the previous one. Bibliography: - Art et Décoration - January 1935. Identical model reproduced on page 23. - Art et Industrie - N° 8 of March 1935. Identical model reproduced page 14. - Mobilier et Décoration - N° 3 of March 1936. Identical model reproduced page 94 in an article entirely devoted to the artist under the pen of Bernard Champigneulle. - Yvonne Brunhammer - André Arbus - Architect-Decorator of the 40s - Norma Editions, Paris, 1996. Identical model reproduced on page 97.
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