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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…
FRENCH – PAIR OF VASES, CIRCA 1900
PAIR OF VASES, CIRCA 1900
Marble. Gilt bronze mount with a design of thistle leaves
50 cm. high
GEORGES DESPRET – YVONNE SERRUYS – “THE THREE GRACES”, CIRCA 1925
“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
PINKNEY MARCIUS-SIMONS – “L’APPARITION DU GRAAL A PERCEVAL”
“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”.
RENE LALIQUE – HECTOR GUIMARD – PAIR OF WALL-LIGHTS “ÉPIS DE BLÉ”, TRIPTYCH FOLDING MIRROR, FIREPLACE, CIRCA 1900
PAIR OF WALL-LIGHTS “ÉPIS DE BLÉ”, TRIPTYCH FOLDING MIRROR, FIREPLACE, CIRCA 1900
René Lalique (1860-1945)
Pair of wall-lights “Epis de blé”, circa 1908
Gilt bronze and moulded glass
65 x 43 cm.
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, n. 20, 1908, p. 54
Hector Guimard (1867-1942)
Triptych folding mirror, circa 1900
Gilt bronze with a vegetal relief decoration
The original drawing is in the archives of the Cercle Guimard, Paris
78.7 cm. high
102.5 cm. wide
Fireplace and surrounds, circa 1900
White marble and black painted cast iron
The fire-surround signed Hector Guimard lower right
137 cm. wide
112 cm. high
35 cm. deep
Bibliography
Guimard, Paris, Musée d’Orsay; Lyon, musée des arts décoratifs et des tissus, 1992-1993, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1992,
ill. p. 68
Provenance
Apartment located in one of the buildings designed by Hector Guimard rue La Fontaine, 16th Arrondissement, Paris