ARMAND-ALBERT RATEAU
MIRROR, c. 1920
A patinated bronze pivot wall mirror.
48.9 x 98.4 x 10.2 cm.
19 1/4 x 38 3/4 x 4 in.
19 1/4 x 38 3/4 x 4 in.
Impressed four times A. A. RATEAU INV PARIS and twice A. A. RATEAU INV
Further images
Exhibitions
This model from Jeanne Lanvin's apartment, Paris, circa 1925, can be found in the permanent collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (inv. no. 39905).Literature
For the same model in Jeanne Lanvin's apartment, 16, rue Barbet-de-Jouy, Paris, circa 1920:E. Schlumberger, "Au 16 rue Barbet-de-Jouy avec Jeanne Lanvin," Connaissance des Arts, Paris, no, 138, August 1963, p. 69
Y. Brunhammer, Le Style 1925, Paris, 1975, pp. 40-41
A. Duncan, A. A. Rateau, exh. cat., DeLorenzo Gallery, New York, 1990, pp. 13, 15
F. Olivier-Vial and F. Rateau, Armand-Albert Rateau, Paris, 1992, pp. 36-37, 45
H. Guéné, Décoration et haute couture : Armand-Albert Rateau pour Jeanne Lanvin, un autre Art déco, Paris, 2006, pp. 127, 131, 137