Jean Prouvé

1901 - 1984

Cité resting armchair

Designed circa 1932.

lacquered steel, cotton canvas and leather

31 1/2 x 26 7/8 x 35 7/8 in. ; 80 x 68,3 x 91 cm

Private collection, France

Sign Gallery, Tokyo

Private collection, Tokyo

Sale : Phillips, New York, Design, 29 July 2020, lot 68

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Galeries Jousse Segu🐻in and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 132-33, 190, 223

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé : Oeuvre complète, Volume 1: 1917-1933, Basel, 1999, p. 209-211

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Sandra Dachs and al., Jean Prouvé : Objects and Furniture Design, Barcelona, 2007, p. 41 and 121

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Volume 1, Paris, 2007, p. 83, 102, 116-117 and 126

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Volume 2, Paris, 2007, p. 270 and 277

Ex. Cat., A passion for Jean Prouvé : From furniture to architecture, The Laurence and Patrick Seguin collection, Pinacoteca G🔜iovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, 6 April– 8 September 2013, p. 126-127 and 272