Lot 232
After Alfred-Auguste Janniot
Additional Images
Provenance:
Christie’s, Paris, Collection of Simone Dray - Art Déco, 8 June, 2006, Lot 3
Note:
‘The Harvest of Cocoa and Cotton’ is one of a series of works commissioned for the Musée des Colonies at the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931. The artist is also known for the relief ‘Friendship Between America and France’ above the main entrance of La Maison Fraçaise at Rockefeller Center in NYC as well as the interiors of the ocean liners ‘Isle de France’ and ‘Normandy’.