This iconic Art Deco screen was inspired by a screen and wall treatment that Gray created for Madame Mathieu Lévy, the Parisan fashion designer known as Suzanne Talbot. From around 1923, after Gray opened her gallery Jean Désert in Paris, several other versions of this screen in black or white were made.
Unsigned
Gift of Sydney and Frances Lewis
"The Folding Screen," National Gallery of Art and Yale University Art Gallery, 1984
The Random House Collectors Enclycopedia: Victorian to Art Deco, NY, 1974, p. 241;
Philippe Garner, ed., The Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1978, p. 31;
Philippe Garner, "The lacquer work of Eileen Gray and Jean Dunand," Connoisseur, May 1973, p. 7;
Peter Adam, Eileen Gray, Architect Designer, Harry N. Abrams, NY, 2000, p. 123;
More references cited in Curatorial File
Yvonne Brunhammer, Le Style 1925, Paris, 1975, p. 79, fig. 2 (Robert Walker screen);
Peter Adam, Eileen Gray. Her Life and Work, Schirmer, Mosel, 2008, pp. 263, 347-348;
Roger Griffith, Margo Delidow, and Chris McGlinchey, "Peeling back the layers: Eileen Gray's brick screens," Studies in Conservation, vol. 57, 2012, S133, figs. 3-4;
Christopher Wilk, ed., Western Furniture 1350 to the Present Day, Cross River Press, NY, 1996, p. 201
Caroline Constant, Eileen Gray. An Architecture for all Senses, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1996;
Cloe Pitot, Eileen Gray, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2013, pp. 42, 141, 149
Noel Riley, eds., The Elements of Design, Free Press, NY, 2003, p. 385, fig. 3;
Stanley Abercrombie, A Century of Interior Design 1900-2000, Rizzoli, NY, 2003, p. 58;
Caroline Constant, Eileen Gray, Phaidon, London, 2000 p. 65;
Philippe Garner, ed., The Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1978, p. 31;
Philippe Garner, "The lacquer work of Eileen Gray and Jean Dunand," Connoisseur, May 1973, p. 7;
Peter Adam, Eileen Gray, Architect Designer, Harry N. Abrams, NY, 2000, p. 123;
More references cited in Curatorial File
Yvonne Brunhammer, Le Style 1925, Paris, 1975, p. 79, fig. 2 (Robert Walker screen);
Peter Adam, Eileen Gray. Her Life and Work, Schirmer, Mosel, 2008, pp. 263, 347-348;
Roger Griffith, Margo Delidow, and Chris McGlinchey, "Peeling back the layers: Eileen Gray's brick screens," Studies in Conservation, vol. 57, 2012, S133, figs. 3-4;
Christopher Wilk, ed., Western Furniture 1350 to the Present Day, Cross River Press, NY, 1996, p. 201
Caroline Constant, Eileen Gray. An Architecture for all Senses, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1996;
Cloe Pitot, Eileen Gray, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2013, pp. 42, 141, 149
Noel Riley, eds., The Elements of Design, Free Press, NY, 2003, p. 385, fig. 3;
Stanley Abercrombie, A Century of Interior Design 1900-2000, Rizzoli, NY, 2003, p. 58;
Caroline Constant, Eileen Gray, Phaidon, London, 2000 p. 65;
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