5th Aug, 2026 11:00

Design & Contemporary
 
Lot 46
 
Lot 46 - Jean-Michel Frank (French 1895-1941) for COMTE, Argentina
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Jean-Michel Frank (French 1895-1941) for COMTE, Argentina
Tric-Trac Low Table

France / Argentina, cicra 1930
Mahogany, oak, gilt leather, brass
Applied COMTE plaque to underside
50cm high x 111cm long x 40cm deep (79cm when extended)

Literature
Mo Amelia Teitelbaum, The Stylemakers: Minimalism and Classic-Modernism, 1915-45, New York, 2010, p. 258, 245

Provenance:
The collection of Mo Amelia Teitelbaum
Mo is a collector, researcher and author who specialises in the period that Jean-Michel Frank spent in the South Americas. She has dedicated much of her life to researching this once forgotten and underappreciated time in Frank's period of creativity. It was in Argentina that his friendship with the Chillian patron, collector and muse Eugenia Errazuriz deepened and he met Ignacio Pirovano, the man he would go on to found COMTE with.
Mo has penned two fascinating books on this period of Frank's life; The Stylemakers, Minimalism and Classic Modernism 1915-1945 and Jean-Michel Frank, Une Aventure Sud-Américaine. Both much lauded by Jean-Michel Frank collectors and enthusiasts of this period of Design and Modernism.
Chiswick Auctions would like to thank the Mo for allowing us to present the current work to auction, we feel privileged to have the opportunity to offer such a rare and important piece of Jean-Michel Frank's design history.
Notes:

A similar example can be seen in the Chanaux files of the Grand Salon of the Born residence commission. The entire interior decoration and furnishing of the Born Residence in San Isidro, was prepared in Paris by Jean-Michel Frank and his team of artists, Alberto Giacometti, Christian Berard, Salvador Dalí and Emilio Terry, between 1936 and 1938. The actual installation was carried out by Comte with J M Frank himself present, in 1940.

Estimated at £6,000 - £8,000

 

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