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Lot 8080 - ibid113 Art Nouveau & Art Deco – online only - Wednesday, 08. July 2020, 02.30 PM

ANTONI GAUDI, Attributed to

(1852-1926)
PAIR OF LARGE FAUTEUILS "AUX DRAGONS", ca. 1920.
Walnut, finely carved with dragons, scrolls, meander band and decorative frieze. Arm rests designed as sculpted dragons, on shaped pillar supports. Light beige fabric cover.
52 x 46 x 43 x 102 cm.

Provenance:
- Auction Galerie Koller, Zurich, 17 September 1997 (Lot No. 752).
- Private collection, Switzerland.

The name "Antoni Gaudí i Cornet" is synonymous with the most diverse architecture of the decades around 1900. A. Gaudí came from a family of potters and completed his studies of architecture in Barcelona in 1878. By that time, he was already a well-known architect working together with famous master builders. He adopted the search for the combination of nature, geometry and form, characteristic of Art Nouveau, as a "conditio sine qua non". For example, he described a tree as his model: "A tree carries its branches, and the branches carry the branchlets, and the branchlets, in turn, carry the leaves. All things are balanced in themselves. All things are in equilibrium...", ending with the provocative statement: "...that all shapes that do not have their origin in nature must - by definition - be ugly". A. Gaudí's most famous buildings - the Casa Vicens, the Palacio Güell, the Casa Calvet, the Park Güell, the Casa Batillò and Milà and his unfinished masterpiece "Sagrada Familia" - are excellent examples of his work. The architect was not only involved in the design but also in the details of his work.
Lit.: G. Steiner, Antoni Gaudí, Architecture as an Event, Cologne 1979.


CHF 2 000 / 3 000 | (€ 2 060 / 3 090)

Sold for CHF 1 875 (including buyer’s premium)
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