GALERIE VALLOIS
France
41 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris
Phone: +33 1 43 29 50 84
artdeco@vallois.com
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Ever since its inception, Galerie Vallois has dedicated itself to the most important creators of French Art Deco and today is celebrating fifty-four years of existence.
The Galerie Vallois will exhibit more than 20 Art Deco masterpieces by Pierre Chareau, Paul Iribe, Eileen Gray, André Groult, Pierre Legrain, Albert-Armand Rateau, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Marcel Coard and Jean Dunand at FAB Paris.
The pieces, which come from private collections, will not be for sale and will constitute a museum-quality exhibition.
Among them will be Eileen Gray’s dragon armchair, acquired by the Vallois Gallery for 10,000 francs in 1971 and purchased for one of its collectors for 22 million euros at the Yves Saint Laurent sale in 2009.
Eileen GRAY
(1878-1976)
Lacquered wood armchair
Circa 1917-1919
Photos: Arnaud Carpentier – Galerie Vallois Paris
Rounded form, upholstered in later brown leather, the back upholstered, the structure in orange-brown lacquered wood with patinated silver leaf inclusions, with a motif in light relief of brown lacquered stylised clouds, representing two dragons, the heads carved into the armrests, the eyes lacquered black on a white background, the bodies extending into the sinuous base at the back of the seat.
Provenance
- Suzanne Talbot Collection (later Madame Mathieu-Lévy), flat boulevard Suchet, Paris, 16th arrondissement.
- Robert and Cheska Vallois, Paris, 1971
- Michel Perinet collection, 1973
- Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé collection, Christie’s Paris sale 2009
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