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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.272
People
Marcel Breuer, American (Pecs, Hungary 1902 - 1981 New York, N.Y., USA)
Title
Chaise Longue
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Isokon Long Chair
Classification
Furniture
Work Type
chair
Date
1936
Culture
British, English
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188998

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bent laminated birch veneers, bent plywood
Dimensions
sight: 77.5 x 130 x 61.5 cm (30 1/2 x 51 3/16 x 24 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne, unknown, sale to BRM, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Claudia Oetker and Liliane Soriano, and Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.272
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), pp. 112-113, ill. (b/w)
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 100

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000
  • Marcel Breuer: A Special Installation of 1930s Furniture, Busch-Reisinger Museum of Central and Northern European Art, Cambridge, 08/10/2002 - 11/02/2003
  • Design~Recline: Modern Architecture and the Mid-Century Chaise Longue, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/20/2004 - 07/11/2004

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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