The Robert Zehil Gallery showcases the most representative works of Art Nouveau and Art Déco
The largest collection of the finest Art Nouveau museum quality glass, ceramic, furniture, sculpture, silverware, enamel…
The Robert Zehil Gallery showcases the most representative works of Art Nouveau and Art Déco
The largest collection of the finest Art Nouveau museum quality glass, ceramic, furniture, sculpture, silverware, enamel…
PAIR OF VASES, CIRCA 1900
Marble. Gilt bronze mount with a design of thistle leaves
50 cm. high
“VASE DE CLERMONT” C PN, 1903
White porcelain glazed yellow and green on a pink and green background; carved and patinated bronze mount with a pinecone motif
Bearing the manufacturer’s stamp for 1908
64 cm. high
44 cm. diameter
Bibliography
Alexandre Sandier & Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, Formes et décors modernes de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, 1913, pl. 16, for two similar vases decorated by Genevieve Rault with bronze bases
“THE THREE GRACES”, CIRCA 1925
Monumental pâte de verre pedestal dish after a model by Yvonne Serruys representing the Three Graces holdind up a sea shell with green and orange highlights imitating mother-of-pearl, with the
base showing children blowing conch shells
Signed and numbered 940
40 cm. high
The shell: 31 cm. long
Exhibition
Sunderland Museum & Art Gallery, The Art of Glass: Art Nouveau to Art Deco, 17 July-27 October 1996
Bibliography
Gustave Kahn, Le goût moderne, November 1926, pp. 8-11: “Ainsi Mme Yvonne Serruys a donné le modèle d’une coupe haute, à large vasque étendue, exécutée dans les tons blancs du marbre ou la nacrure du coquillage, soutenue par les épaules
de porteurs nus, dont les pieds s’agrippent à un rocher mouvementé, et le verrier a obtenu des épreuves de colorations diverses, distinctes et toutes bien venues”
Victor Arwas, The Art of Glass, Andreas Papadakis, publisher, 1996, full page ill. p. 56
“L’APPARITION DU GRAAL A PERCEVAL”
Oil on panel
Signed
72 x 67 cm.
This painting depicts the moment in Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal when “The light radiates,
the Graal sets itself ablaze and a dove comes down from the dome above Parsifal.
He refuses to kiss Kundry whom remorseful falls and dies”.