Artist Monograph

Jean Prouvé, French

French, 1901–1984

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Other Media	6	60%
Sculpture	4	40%

Production by Decade

1

1930s

3

1940s

5

1950s

1

1960s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Medium (30–100 cm)	4	40%
Large (1–3 m)	5	50%
Monumental (> 3 m)	1	10%

Range: 79.4 cm → 303.0 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1997	1
1998	1
2003	3
2004	1
2005	2
2008	2

French Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 10 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Folding Chair Design Acc. 466.1997	1930	Enameled steel and linen	40 3/8 x 17 5/8 x 18 3/4" (102.6 x 44.8 x 47.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
School desk Design Acc. 502.2005	1946	Enameled steel and oak	28 1/2 x 45 x 34" (72.4 x 114.3 x 86.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 86.36 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Dorothy Cullman Purchase Fund
"Potence" Bracket Lamp Design Acc. 843.2005	c.1947	Enameled steel and brass	12 × 61" (30.5 × 154.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Jürg Zumtobel Purchase Fund
Façade Panel for Fédération du Bâtiment, Paris, France Architecture Acc. 228.2003	1949-50	Aluminum and glass	9' 11 3/8" x 56 3/4 x 5 1/8" (303 x 144 x 13 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown
"Direction" Office Armchair no. 352 Design Acc. 212.1998	1951	Enameled steel, leather, foam, and wood	31 1/2 x 25 3/16 x 22 5/8" (80 x 64 x 57.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of Judith Price
"Standard" Chair no. 305 Design Acc. 455.2008	1952	Enameled steel, plywood, aluminum, and rubber	31 1/4 x 17 3/4 x 18 7/8" (79.4 x 45.1 x 47.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of the designer
"Standard" Demountable "Cafétéria" Chair no. 300 Design Acc. 454.2008	1952	Enameled steel and plywood	31 1/2 x 16 1/8 x 18 1/8" (80 x 41 x 46 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of Tecta Axel & Werner Bruchhäuser OHG, Lauenförde, Germany
"Antony" or "Light" Chair no. 356 Design Acc. 358.2004	1954	Enameled steel and molded beech plywood	34 1/2 x 19 5/8 x 26" (87.6 x 49.8 x 66 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of Barbara Jakobson
Shutter for Manufacture des Tabacs, Marseille, France Architecture Acc. 230.2003	1954	Aluminum	74 13/16 x 31 1/2 x 12 5/8" (190 x 80 x 32 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
Façade Panel for Siège Social de la CIMT (Compagnie industrielle du matériel de transport), Neuilly sur Seine, France Architecture Acc. 229.2003	1963	Aluminum and glass	9' 3 1/2" x 46 7/8 x 4 5/16" (283 x 119 x 11 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of Clarissa Alcock Bronfman