Sotheby’s Auctions Félix Marcilhac's Exquisite Collection of Art Deco
A spectacular collaboration between French designers Jean Dunand (1877–1942) and Jean Goulden (1878–1946), this unique and signed 1921 cabinet is lacquered with an abstract landscape. “You see the mountains, the valley, and the sky,” Marcilhac says, adding that the scene is reminiscent of the landscapes Goulden would have been familiar with in Macedonia and Turkey during World War I, when he was a battlefield doctor. “When he returned to Paris,” the dealer continues, “he made two pieces of fu...