ARMAND-ALBERT RATEAU
Pair of wall lights , c. 1924
Executed by Maison Baguès, Paris, France.
Patinated bronze, electrical system.
Patinated bronze, electrical system.
Each impressed A.A.RATEAU/INVR.
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Model designed for Jeanne Lanvin, held in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD), Paris (Gift of Prince Louis de Polignac to the museum, 1965 – Inv. 39944.A).
Literature
Yvonne Brunhammer, Le Style 1925, Paris, 1970s, p. 41Alastair Duncan, A.A. Rateau, exh. cat., DeLorenzo Gallery, New York, 1990, p. 17
Franck Olivier-Vial and François Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau: un baroque chez les modernes, Paris, 1992, pp. 21, 23, 33
Hélène Guéné, Décoration et Haute Couture: Armand Albert Rateau pour Jeanne Lanvin, un autre Art Déco, Paris, 2006, p. 124