The White Chieftain Chair

Finn Juhl (1912 - 1989)

Lot 298: FINN JUHL | An Early "Chieftain" Armchair

Est: $70,000 - $100,000 (Passed)

Sotheby's December 12, 2019 New York, NY, US

Description

teak, original leather upholstery 

Dimensions

36 3/4  x 39 3/4  x 34  in. (93.3 x 101 x 86.3 cm)

Medium

teak, original leather upholstery 

Literature

Grete Jalk, ed., Dansk Møbelkunst gennem 40 aar, Volume 3: 1947-1956, Copenhagen, 1987, pp. 124-25, 233,and 311
Esbjørn Hiort, Finn Juhl: Furniture, Architecture, Applied Art, Copenhagen, 1990, pp. 23 and 40-41
Patricia Yamada, ed., Finn Juhl Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat., Osaka, 1990, pp. 6, 10, 22, 36, 56-59 and 134
Noritsugu Oda, Danish Chairs, San Francisco, 1996, pp. 92-93
Per H. Hansen,  Finn Juhl: Og Hans Haus, Copenhagen, 2009, pp. 36, (for a drawing of the model), 37, 39, 40 (for a drawing of the model), 41, 43, 73, 79, 155, 158, 164, 190-191, 193 and 206

Provenance

Private Collection
Wyeth, New York
Private Collection 
Phillips New York, June 9, 2015, lot 100
Acquired from the above by the present owner