JEAN PROUVÉ | A RARE “KANGOUROU” ARMCHAIR, MODEL NO. FV 22

Hôtel des Ventes Anticthermal, Nancy, March 25, 2001

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Jean Prouvé: Three Nomadic Structures, Arthur Ross Gallery, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, New York, April 12-May 10, 2002 and September 12, 2003-April 23, 2004

“L’élément-coque de Jean Prouvé,” Le Décor d’Aujourd’hui, July 1951, pp. 178-179 (for the model presented at the Salon des Arts Ménagers, Paris, 1951)

Dominique Clayssen, Jean Prouvé: l'idée constructive, Paris 1983, pp. 152 and 166 (for the model presented at the Salon des Arts Ménagers, Paris, 1951)

Jean Prouvé: Constructeur, exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1990, p. 116 (for the model presented at the Salon des Arts Ménagers, Paris, 1951)

Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 56-57

Jean Prouvé: La Biennale di Venezia, Paris, 2000, pp. 42 and 44-47

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé:  Œuvre Complete/Complete Works, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, fig. 11 (for a sketch of the chair model)

Laurence Allégret and Valérie Vaudou, eds., Jean Prouvé et Paris, Paris, 2001, p. 230

Jean Prouvé, 1901-1984: Constructeur, Paris, 2001, fig. 118 (for the model presented at the Salon des Arts Ménagers, Paris, 1951)

Jean Prouvé: Three Nomadic Structures, exh. cat., Arthur Ross Gallery, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, New York, 2002, p. 38 (for an Ateliers Jean Prouvé advertisement illustrating the chair model)

Christian Enjolras, Jean Prouvé: Les maisons de Meudon, 1949-1999, Paris, 2003, p. 59 (for the model presented at the Salon des Arts Ménagers, Paris, 1951)

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Œuvre Complète/Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, cat. no. 1135.8