20th Century Design
Description:
Attributed to Jean-Michel Frank (1895-1941) Armchair
Wrought iron, leather
France, c. 1925
Upholstered leather seat, back, and arms on wrought iron frame, tears to leather, stains, ht. 35 5/8, wd. 25 1/4, dp. 23 to 24 in.
Provenance: Purchased at a Paris flea market in the 1950s.
Literature: L.D. Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 1997, pp. 116, 220-221, for illustrations of this model.
Estimate $30,000-50,000
seat later.
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