Victor Courtray Rare Model Mid 20th Century Oak & Sisal Armchair

This is a wonderful and rare model Victor Courtray (1896-1987) mid Century modern French oak and sisal armchair. A very stylish and chic oak armchair with woven sisal sectioned back arms and seat raised on sabre front legs. It is of great original colour and in wonderful condition. Sisal is a species of flowering plant native to southern Mexico, but widely cultivated and naturalized in many other countries. Victor Courtray:- Victor Courtray was born in 1896, grew up during the 1900s and 1910s and was influenced by the artistic culture of the time. The dynamic development of pictorial art defined the first decades of the 20th Century. It was an era of experimentation and post-Impressionism, with artists first delving into Expressionism and Abstraction. A variety of collectives and communities of artists across the world evolved different ways of articulating these crucial innovations.