Jacques AVOINET (born 1914), - Lot 159

Jacques AVOINET (born 1914), Rare lamp with patinated wrought-iron structure housing a rotating circular concrete reflector set with red-to-yellow colored glass plates. Brutalist-inspired work, circa 1950-1960. Height Height : 36 cm Width: 31 cm Depth : 16.5 cm Note: Jacques Avoinet designed the stained-glass windows for the Couvent de la Tourette, built by Le Corbusier in 1956. Related work : The Church of Notre-Dame in Royan, a building rebuilt between 1955 and 1958 after the 1945 bombardments, was designed by architect Guillaume Gillet in collaboration with engineers Bernard Laffaille and René Sarger: it features a reinforced concrete structure and stained glass windows, spread over 500 m², mainly by master glassworker Henri Martin-Granel (and his son Jean-Baptiste) in an abstract style.