JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)
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JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)

Bonbonnière for Madame Agnès, Paris, circa 1925

Details
JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)
Bonbonnière for Madame Agnès, Paris, circa 1925
lacquered Oréum, eggshell inlay, painted wood
2 ¾ in. (7 cm) high, 5 in. (12.7 cm) diameter
incised JEAN DUNAND AFFECTUEUSEMENT A MME AGNES and impressed OREUM
Provenance
Madame Agnès, Paris, acquired directly from the artist
Steven A. Greenberg, New York
The Steven A. Greenberg Collection: Masterpieces of French Art Deco, Christie's, New York, 13 December 2012, lot 88
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
F. Marcilhac and A. Marcilhac, Jean Dunand, Paris, 2020, p. 370, no. 34 (for a related example)

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Lot Essay

Jean Dunand significantly impacted the world of fashion in the 1920s by creating jewelry, decorating accessories and collaborating with fashion designers such as Jeanne Lanvin and Madeleine Vionnet, incorporating his signature lacquered metal and eggshell inlay designs into everyday objects.

He met Parisian milliner Madame Agnès in the early 1920s and the two quickly started to collaborate extensively and exclusively, Dunand decorating the designer's showroom with lacquered walls and furniture, creating fashion accessories, decorative panels, and creating vases for her booth at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.

Agnès later commissioned Dunand to decorate her studio and personal Parisian apartment with sumptuous gilt lacque arraché furniture, published in La Renaissance de l'art français, Paris, April 1927.

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