Eileen Gray
Rare and Important stool for Tempe a Pailla

Ireland, 1932-1934
painted steel, Berkshire leather, painted wood
14.25 w × 11 d × 26.75 h in (36 × 28 × 68 cm)

Signed with applied studio label to underside: [EG].

Provenance: Collection of Eileen Gray | Thence by descent to Prunella Clough (niece of the artist) | Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monte Carlo, Collection of Eileen Gray, 25 May 1980, Lot 277 | Private Collection | Sotheby's, London, 20th Century Design, 2 March 1999, Lot 44 | Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd

Exhibited: Eileen Gray, 1979, Victoria & Albert Museum, London | Eileen Gray, 6 February - 1 April 1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Literature: Eileen Gray: Designer, Johnson, pg. 56 illustrates this example in situ Eileen Gray, Constant, pg. 151 illustrates this example Modernist Paradise: Niemeyer House | Boyd Collection, Webb, ppg. 101, 134-135 illustrate this example Eileen Gray, Baudot, ppg. 71, 79 illustrate this example Eileen Gray: Designer and Architect, Garner, pg. 115 illustrates second example

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