About the Artwork
Side Chair
ca. 1900
Josef Hoffmann
1870-1956
Austrian
Unknown
Stained mahogany with reproduction velvet upholstery
Overall: 29 1/2 × 22 × 18 inches (74.9 × 55.9 × 45.7 cm)
Furniture
European Modern Art to 1970
Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford, II Fund
79.180.1
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Provenance
(Christie's, New York, New York, USA);1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Important Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Sales cat., Christie, Manson and Woods International. New York, October 25, 1979, p. 285, pl. 995 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4 (1980): p. 203 (ill.).
"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit Free Press, April 26, 1981, p. 22 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Josef Hoffmann, Side Chair, ca. 1900, stained mahogany with reproduction velvet upholstery. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford, II Fund, 79.180.1.
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