Property from a Private Collection, New York
Rug
Lot Closed
October 20, 04:54 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, New York
Jules Leleu
Rug
circa 1920s
hand-woven wool
with woven signature LELEU
120 1/2 in. (306 cm) diameter
Y&B Bolour, London
Acquired from the abo﷽ve by the present owner, 1994
Bernard Champigneulle, "La Participation de la France à l'Exposition de Bruxelles," Mobilier et Décoration, Paris, no. 1, January 1935, p. 308 (for a period photogr🐼aph of the rug design at the 1936 Exposition i🌺n Brussels)
Viviane Jutheau, Jules et André Leleu, Paris, 1989, pp. 68-69 (for related examples)
Jacques Sirat and Françoise Siriex, Tapis français du XXe siècle: De l'art nouveau aux créations contemporaines, Paris, 1993, p.ꦐ 147 (for the above period photogra🀅ph)
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