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This and 3 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Door With Handle.

Object Timeline

1925	Work on this object began.
1926	Work on this object ended.
1950	We acquired this object.
2014	We photographed this object. We photographed this object.
2017	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Door With Handle (France)

This is a Door with handle. It was executor: Jean Dunand. It is dated 1925–26 and we acquired it in 1950. Its medium is carved, joined, and lacquered wood, eggshell, mother-of-pearl, gold leaf, cast bronze. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Having purchased a house on the North Shore of Long Island in 1924, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Guggenheim sought decorating help from their young British friend Rowland Burdon-Miller. At his recommendation, they commissioned doors and screens from Jean Dunand, the great French master of lacquer, and Séraphin Soudbinine, a Russian émigré and French sculptor—possibly the patrons’ first modern art commission.

It is credited Gift of Mrs. Solomon R. Guggenheim.

A tall black lipped oval brass vase covered with a collage-like dappled pattern created by inlaid egg shell on a red lacquer ground.

Vase, ca. 1925
brass with coquille d’oeuf on red lacquer ground.
Stephen E. Kelly/Kelly Gallery, New York.
38.2016.5

Vase
enamel, copper.
Private Collection.
41.2016.5

Sculpture, New York
brass and steel on black marble base (or vulcanite base).
Lent by Indianapolis Museum of Art, Discretionary Fund, 73.8.
68.2016.1

Our curators have highlighted 3 objects that are related to this one.

Dado (France)
block-printed paper.
Gift of Josephine Howell.
1972-42-183

Painted plywood maquette, or a preliminary sketch, depicting a stylized forest scene with arched, rolling hills, jagged, leafy trees and a lone deer standing erect and looking upward. The overall color palette includes shades of grey and silver, charcoal accents, white highlights, and beige with acid-green accents on the animal. The elements in the scene are overlapping, with the deer centered horizontally and slightly toward the right side of the panel.

Object ID #907214323
painted plywood.
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, John Stuart Gordon Gift,....
66.2016.10

Sidewall, Opera
screen printed on paper.
Gift of Mrs. Howard Adams.
1981-33-1

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 271.2 × 65.9 × 7.6 cm (8 ft. 10 3/4 in. × 25 15/16 in. × 3 in.)

Cite this object as

Door With Handle (France); Executor: Jean Dunand (French, b. Switzerland, 1877–1942); carved, joined, and lacquered wood, eggshell, mother-of-pearl, gold leaf, cast bronze; H x W x D: 271.2 × 65.9 × 7.6 cm (8 ft. 10 3/4 in. × 25 15/16 in. × 3 in.); Gift of Mrs. Solomon R. Guggenheim; 1950-104-1

We have 1 media file that features Door With Handle (France).

"Moten Swing," Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1932)

The Dunand doors are sophisticated, elegant, and massive. “Moten Swing” in many ways defines the emerging sounds coming out of Kansas City, but was recorded in Camden, New Jersey. The recording...

http://www.folkways.si.edu/bennie-motens-kansas-city-orchestra/moten-swing/jazz-ragtime/music/track/smithsonian

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CdKi/
Accession Number 1950-104-1
Object ID 18383407