Lot n° 285
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COMPAGNIE DES WAGONS-LITS - RENÉ PROU (1889-1947)... - Lot 285 - Lucien Paris
COMPAGNIE DES WAGONS-LITS - RENÉ PROU (1889-1947) RECTANGULAR PANEL OF A FIRST CLASS SLEEPING CAR CABIN.
Wood veneer, decorated with an exotic flower marquetry in an octagonal reserve.
Car No. 2642, manufactured by Leeds Forge Company,
which ran on the Orient-Express and the Bombay.
c. 1922-1926.
83.5 x 36.5 cm.
René Prou, a famous decorator of the early twentieth century, decorated ocean liners, apartments, and hotels around the world, as well as the luxury trains of the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, in collaboration with René Lalique, between 1922 and 1926.
The panels of the type we present were fixed above the bed, on the cabins of the first metal cars which circulated on the Orient-Express, the Blue Train and all the big luxury expresses of the Wagons-Lits Company. These cars were inaugurated in December 1922 on platform 1 of the Gare de Lyon to reach Nice and the French Riviera. For the occasion, the cars were painted in a blue-night livery with gold fillets, which gave its name to the Train Bleu, formerly the Calais-Méditerranée-Express.
The panel we present comes from a type S sleeping car of the Orient Express, from 1922 to 1926.

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