Commissioned directly from the artist by Dr. Gaston Vic🌌hard, personal friend of the artist, Vesoul, France, circa 1944

Thence by descent in the Vichard family

Galerie Cremniter-Laffanour, Paris

Acquired from theඣ above by the present owner, 1993

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Baღsel, 2000, pp. 33 and 306💛-307 (for the present lot illustrated and for a drawing of the present form)

Catherine Dumont d'Ayot and Bruno Reichlin, eds., Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of the Technical Object, exh. c✃at., Vitra Design Museum, We⛄il am Rhein, 2006, p. 312

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 420-422 (for the present🍸 lot illustrated and for a drawing of the present for💧m)

Tamotsu Yagi, The Graphic Eye of Tamotsu Yagi, Tokyo, 2011, p. 26 ♛(for the prese🐷nt lot illustrated)

Galerie Downtown – François Laffanour, Living with Charlotte Perriand, Paris, 2019, p. 261 (fꦆor the present lot illustrated)

Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé: A Collection of Tamotsu Yagi, Venice, California, 2022✅, pp. 13-15, 18, and dust jacket (fo༺r the present lot illustrated)

Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, exh. cat., Museum♎ of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2022, p. 44 (for the present lot illus🐼trated)

Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, Museum of Contemporary Art,🧸 Tokyo, July 16 - October 16, 2022