RENÉ PROU (1889-1947) - Lot 383

RENÉ PROU (1889-1947) COMPAGNIE INTERNATIONALE DES WAGONS - TRIPTYCH BEDS WITH RECTANGULAR CAR COMPARTMENT PANELS - FIRST CLASS BEDS TYPE S - One panel in wood veneered with Cuban mahogany, decorated with an oval marquetry of flowers and polychrome leaves. 1926. On reverse, sleeper stencil no.: 2960; chalk inscription: XXII; felt-tip pen inscription: 10/1A - 3. 57.3 x 58.5 cm. Later framed with a Sapelli wood rod. - The other two in wood veneered with Cuban mahogany, decorated with an octagonal marquetry of exotic polychrome flowers. 1926. On the reverse of one, painted inscription: 7.D; chalk inscription: KP7; felt-tip inscription: 3/1A - 10. On the reverse of the other, stencilled number of the sleeper: 2949 (from 1926); felt-tip inscription 2/3A - 10. 57 x 42 cm. Later framed with a Sapelli wood rod. BIBLIOGRAPHY. . Luxury trains. Splendour, elegance & extravagance, ACC Art Books UK, 2023. . Legendäre Luxuszüge - 24 stilvolle Traumreisen, Frederking & Thaler, 2023. . La folie des trains de luxe, Éditions EPA - Hachette, Paris 2022. . Treni fra arte, grafica e design, exhibition catalog M.A.X. Museo, Chiasso, Switzerland, Skira, 2021. . Anne Bony, René Prou, entre Art Déco et modernisme, Éditions Norma, 2018, p. 109. . Jean-Paul Caracalla, Le goût du voyage, histoire de la Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, Flammarion, 2001, p. 67. . Jean des Cars, Jean-Paul Caracalla, L'Orient-Express, un siècle d'aventures ferroviaires, Denoël, 1984, reproduced p. 78. . Jean des Cars, Jean-Paul Caracalla, Le Train Bleu et les Grands Express de la Riviera, Denoël, 1988, reproduced p. 77. Designed by René Prou, these marquetries decorated the S-type sleeping cars used on the Orient-Express, Calais-Méditerranée-Express (Train Bleu), Paris Rome Express and other prestige CIWL trains in the 1920s-1930s.