A storage box / gift box, designed by Bart Anthony van der Leck
1935, for Metz & Co., cardboard with printed design by Bart van der Leck. Dimensions:
height c. 32 cm, width c. 32 cm, depth c. 15 cm. (MHA)
Boxes such as the present one were used as packaging and gift boxes for the Metz & Co shops in Amsterdam and The Hague between 1935 and 1952.
Bart Anthony van der Leck was a Netherlandish designer and artist. Together with Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg he founded the movement known as De Stijl, from which he would distance himself in 1918.
Lit.:
Metz & Co de creatieve jaren, Petra Timmer,010 Verlag, p. 192; Bart van der Leck, KröllerMüller-Museum Otterlo, Toos van Kooten, p. 117
Provenance:
Part of a German Bauhaus Collection
Specialist: Mathias Harnisch, MA
Mathias Harnisch, MA
+43-1-515 60-242
Mathias.Harnisch@dorotheum.at
14.05.2019 - 16:00
- Estimate:
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EUR 800.- to EUR 1,200.-
A storage box / gift box, designed by Bart Anthony van der Leck
1935, for Metz & Co., cardboard with printed design by Bart van der Leck. Dimensions:
height c. 32 cm, width c. 32 cm, depth c. 15 cm. (MHA)
Boxes such as the present one were used as packaging and gift boxes for the Metz & Co shops in Amsterdam and The Hague between 1935 and 1952.
Bart Anthony van der Leck was a Netherlandish designer and artist. Together with Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg he founded the movement known as De Stijl, from which he would distance himself in 1918.
Lit.:
Metz & Co de creatieve jaren, Petra Timmer,010 Verlag, p. 192; Bart van der Leck, KröllerMüller-Museum Otterlo, Toos van Kooten, p. 117
Provenance:
Part of a German Bauhaus Collection
Specialist: Mathias Harnisch, MA
Mathias Harnisch, MA
+43-1-515 60-242
Mathias.Harnisch@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Design |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 14.05.2019 - 16:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 08.05. - 14.05.2019 |