Design
ca. 1933 (made), 1945-1956 (made)
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Rough sketch design in pencil on tracing paper for an irregularly shaped table decorated with a star and crescent moon. There are other slight pencil sketches of side elevations of other tables. Inscribed in pencil with sums.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil on tracing paper |
| Brief description | Design for painted table for Eileen Gray's house 'Tempe a Pailla' at Castellar, France, pencil on tracing paper, Eileen Gray, ca. 1933 |
| Physical description | Rough sketch design in pencil on tracing paper for an irregularly shaped table decorated with a star and crescent moon. There are other slight pencil sketches of side elevations of other tables. Inscribed in pencil with sums. |
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| Production | Eileen Gray returned to castellar after 1945 and tried to replace the looted furniture and fittings. This drawing may therefore date from the period 1945-1956; after which she sold the house to the painter Graham Sutherland. |
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| Accession number | E.1133-1983 |
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| Record created | September 8, 2008 |
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