A SET OF FOUR 'YO-YO' BAR STOOLS, 1950S

Details

JEAN ROYERE (1902-1981)
A SET OF FOUR 'YO-YO' BAR STOOLS, 1950S
painted wrought-iron, leather upholstery
each 30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Galerie Neo-Senso, Paris (three stools).
Christie's, New York, 7 June 2000, lot 188 (one stool);
Christie's, New York, 13 June 2008, lot 243.

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Lot Essay

cf. Exhibition catalogue, Jean Royère, Décorateur à Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1999, pp. 68-69;
P.-E. Martin-Vivier, Jean Royère, Paris, 2002, pp. 42, 113 for period illustrations of a similar model;
Galerie Jacques Lacoste, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Royère, Paris, 2012, vol. 1. pp. 200-203 for other works with the yo-yo motif, vol. 2, p. 56 for a stool of this model.

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