Ashtray (Primary Title)
Armand-Albert Rateau, French, 1882 - 1938 (Artist)
Jeanne Lanvin started her successful fashion business in Paris in 1889. During the early 1920s she began the decoration of her private house at 16 rue Barbet-de-Jouy in Paris with interiors and furnishings by Armand-Albert Rateau. The interiors-a bedroom, boudoir, and bathroom-and their possessions were donated in 1965 by her son-in-law, Prince Louis de Polignac, to the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. This bronze ashtray is identical to an example created for the bathroom of Lanvin’s residence. Another version was displayed at the Paris 1925 International Exposition and then with a selection of objects from that exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1926.
twice stamped on bottom: "AA RATEAU / INV 5"
Gift of Sydney and Frances Lewis
(similar example) Exposition des Arts Decoratifs Industriels et Modernes (Exhibition of International and Modern Decorative Arts), Paris,1925;
(similar example) "A selected collection of objects from the International Exposition of Modern Decorative & Industrial Art," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (plus 7 venues), 1926;
"L'Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789-1989, Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY, Mar 30 - July 30, 1989;
(similar example) "A selected collection of objects from the International Exposition of Modern Decorative & Industrial Art," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (plus 7 venues), 1926;
"L'Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789-1989, Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY, Mar 30 - July 30, 1989;
Franck Olivier-Vial and Francois Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau, Editions de l'Amateur, 1992, pp. 180, 183;
Alastair Duncan, A.A. Rateau, The Delorenzo Gallery, NY, 1990m pp. 19, 22, 61, 68-69;
Alastair Duncan, Art Deco Furniture, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, fig 198;
Galerie Vallois, Armand Albert Rateau, exh. cat., 1989, p. 5;
Galerie Vallois, Armand Albert Rateau Jeanne Lanvin, Biennale, Paris, 2004;
The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Berge, pp. 107108;
Alastair Duncan, A.A. Rateau, The Delorenzo Gallery, NY, 1990m pp. 19, 22, 61, 68-69;
Alastair Duncan, Art Deco Furniture, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, fig 198;
Galerie Vallois, Armand Albert Rateau, exh. cat., 1989, p. 5;
Galerie Vallois, Armand Albert Rateau Jeanne Lanvin, Biennale, Paris, 2004;
The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Berge, pp. 107108;
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