Mountains with Mist
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Ray Komai's molded plywood chair was manufactured in Brooklyn in 1949, using the latest American technology. Although European designers such as Marcel Breuer and Alvar Aalto designed plywood furniture in the 1930s, it was the Americans Charles and Ray Eames, in the years immediately after World War II, who realized the full potential of this material and bent one sheet of plywood in several directions. Komai's chair adds a sophisticated anthropomorphic twist. If you look closely, the chair's design suggests a human face.
Caption
Auguste-François Bonheur (Bordeaux, France, 1824–1884, Meudon, France). Mountains with Mist, mid 1850s. Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 10 1/2 × 16 9/16 in. (26.7 × 42.1 cm) frame: 13 1/2 × 19 × 1 1/4 in. (34.3 × 48.3 × 3.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Healy Purchase Fund B, 1993.123.1. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Mountains with Mist
Date
mid 1850s
Geography
Place made: France
Medium
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
10 1/2 × 16 9/16 in. (26.7 × 42.1 cm) frame: 13 1/2 × 19 × 1 1/4 in. (34.3 × 48.3 × 3.2 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower left: "A. Bonheur"
Inscriptions
Signed lower right on label: "Pyrenees/Aspes"
Credit Line
Healy Purchase Fund B
Accession Number
1993.123.1
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