Lot 170: PIERRE BOBOT

"PARADISE"

"PARADISE"

measurements note
108 x 90 in. (274.4 x 228.6 cm)

ca. 1940s

comprising fifteen panels decorated with a stylized mythical garden with various flora and fauna centered by a figure of Bacchus and a dancing classical maiden

inscribed Pierre Bobot with cipher

carved, gilt, and polychrome lacquered wood panels

PROVENANCE

Hôtel des Ventes de Corbeil-Essones, Maîtres Jean-Pierre Bonduelle and Jean-Marc Lancry, December 11, 2004, lot 244

LITERATURE

Lumière Du Laque: Pierre Bobot au Musée Carnavalet, Paris, 2002

NOTE

By repute these panels were part of a commission by Jules Leleu and Pierre Bobot for a dining room.

Sotheby's would like thank Marie-Thérèse Bobot for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.