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Design

ca. 1933 (made), 1945-1956 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.7cm
  • Width: 37.4cm
Sheet size. Taken from Prints and Drawings catalogue.
Marks and inscriptions
  • table peinte Tempa [sic] Pailla (Inscribed in pencil)
  • (Inscribed in pencil with sums)
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.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
E.1133-1983

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Record createdSeptember 8, 2008
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