each element signed `Farhi' and dated `69'

Acquired directly from the artist in 1969

Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Gunter Sachs - Retrospektive, 2003
Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Gunter Sachs, 2008
Moscow, Museum Tsaritsyno, Gunter Sachs, 2009

`Chez Gunter Sachs à Saint Moritz', Plaisir de France, January 1971, p. 32, in situ
Patrick Favardin & Guy Bloch-Champford, Les Décorateurs des Années 60-70, Paris, 2007, p. 36

Base with a couple of minor edge chips, though not at all significant. A few areas of abrasion to the base, most noticeably two rectangles on the same side as the signature, though the signature is not affected. One or two chips to apertures for columns, though these will be concealed when columns are in situ. Column with single stripe has chip to cut edge just below the top. Column with three stripes has repair to base where it fits into the base element, and a chip at the very top. Otherwise good.
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