Eugene Printz French, 1889-1949
Rectangular Desk, 1932
Original palm wood veneer top, bent patinated wrought iron.
Length: 57.8 in.
Depth: 26.7 in.
Height: 28.3 in.
Depth: 26.7 in.
Height: 28.3 in.
Inlayed with the artist’s stamp “E.P."
In the 1980s, Lord and Lady Jacobs called upon fashionable Parisian interior designers Betty and Francois Catroux to decorate their luxurious property in London’s Regent’s Park to hold their growing...
In the 1980s, Lord and Lady Jacobs called upon fashionable Parisian interior designers Betty and Francois Catroux to decorate their luxurious property in London’s Regent’s Park to hold their growing art collection. Our desk was acquired through the designers in Parisian Drouot auctions around that time.
Provenance
Lord Anthony and Lady Evelyn Jacobs
Exhibitions
Le Métal dans l’Art (Metal in the Arts), Musée Galliera, Paris, 1932. Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, Paris 1934.
Literature
Appears in: L’Illustration, May 1933, p. 18.
Mobilier et Décoration n°6 June 1934 p. 218.
Mobilier et Décoration, 1936 p. 164.
Eugène Printz, Guy Bujon, Éditions du regard 1986 p. 174 and 238.