JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)
JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MS. FRANCES L. WOLFSON
JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)

'La Conquête du Cheval', circa 1920

Details
JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)
'La Conquête du Cheval', circa 1920
lacquered wood, gold leaf, gesso
30 7/8 x 28 7/8 in. (78.5 x 73.4 cm) (framed)
23 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. (60.3 x 55.3 cm) (sight)
signed JEAN DUNAND lower left
Provenance
Madeleine Vionnet, Paris
Mobilier Art Déco: Madeleine Vionnet, Drouot, Paris, 31 May 1985, lot 152
Private Collection
Acquired by the present owner, 1989
Literature
Y. Rambosson, "Le Paquebot Normandie: Heraut de France", Mobilier et Décoration, Paris, July 1935, p. 267
"The French Line Quadruple-screw Turbo-electric North Atlantic Steamship: Normandie", Ocean Liners of the Past: No. 5 in a series of reprints from 'The Shipbuilder & Marine Engine Builder', Greenwich, 1970, p. 124, fig. 19
L. Reade, "The French Line Quadruple-screw Turbo-electric North Atlantic Steamship: Normandie," Ocean Liners of the Past: No. 5 in a series of reprints from 'The Shipbuilder & Marine Engine Builder,' Greenwich, 1970, pp. 119, fig. 8, 120, fig. 9 (for a period photograph of the Smoking Room), 124, fig. 19
A. Lederfajn, X. Lenormand, 1930 Quand le meuble devient sculpture, exh. cat., Les Louvre des Antiquaires, Paris, 1981, n.p., no. 35
B. Foucart, et al., Normandie: Queen of the Seas, New York, 1985, p. 78
F. Marcilhac, Jean Dunand: His Life and Works, London, 1991, pp. 153 and 316
Y. Masutani, et al., Fantastic Voyage: Luxury and Sophistication on the Ocean Liners, Osaka, 1996, pp. 64-65
J. Maxtone-Graham, Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner, New York, 2007, pp. 95, 97, 220 (for period photographs of the Smoking Room)
F. Marcilhac, A. Marcilhac, Jean Dunand, Paris, 2020, pp. 8-9, 156 (for period photograph of the Smoking Room on the Normandie), 157 (for a period photograph of Dunand in his studio in front of the model of La Conquête du cheval), 160 (for a period photograph of the Smoking Room on the Normandie), 275-276, no. 269-278

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Lot Essay

The present lot is a reduced scale version of the panel executed by Dunand for the Smoking Room of the S.S. Normandie. This version, however, was initially a part of French fashion designer Madeleine Vionnet's collection.

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