Pool Lounger, from the 'Locus Solus' series
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: Contemporary Art, Northwest Corner, Intro Gallery
MEDIUM
Enameled tubular and sheet steel, rubber, screen-printed canvas
DATES
ca. 1965
DIMENSIONS
27 1/8 × 87 × 30 5/16 in., 47 lb. (68.9 × 221 × 77 cm, 21.32kg)
(show scale)
ACCESSION NUMBER
2023.76.1
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Dennis Freedman, in honor of the Brooklyn Museum's 200th Anniversary
PROVENANCE
Prior to 2004, provenance not yet documented; June 30, 2004, purchased at Christie’s London, lot 44, by Dennis Freedman of New York, NY; December 29, 2023, gift of Dennis Freedman to the Brooklyn Museum.
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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
A very rare Locus Solus lounge chair. Lacquered steel tube, polyurethane foam covered with printed cotton fabric by Graziella Guidotti Poltronova Edition
CAPTION
Gae Aulenti (1927–2012). Pool Lounger, from the 'Locus Solus' series, ca. 1965. Enameled tubular and sheet steel, rubber, screen-printed canvas, 27 1/8 × 87 × 30 5/16 in., 47 lb. (68.9 × 221 × 77 cm, 21.32kg). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dennis Freedman, in honor of the Brooklyn Museum's 200th Anniversary, 2023.76.1 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2023.76.1_overall_PS20.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 2023.76.1_overall_PS20.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2024
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