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“ELEGANTE EN ROBE LONGUE, SEIN GAUCHE DECOUVERT”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a dark brown patina
Signed
With foundry mark and numbererd (M)
39 cm. high
“HIPPOCAMPES ET GRONDINS” VASE, 1904
Important vase in dark patinated bronze, lost wax cast by A. A. Hébrard, embellished with two gurnards in relief on a background of starfish and seahorses on the body of the vase
Signed Léo Laporte Blairsy on the belly and Cire perdue A. A. Hébrard on the foot
62 cm. high; 17 cm. diameter
Exhibition
Salon d’Automne, 1904, n. 2015 “Vase aux poissons”, lost wax bronze. (Property of Mr. Hébrard)
Prix du Salon des boursiers de voyage. IIème exposition quinquennale, Grand Palais, Paris 1907, p. 82, n. 7
Exposition universelle et internationale, Gand, 1913
“1900”, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 14 March – 26 June 2000, ill. p. 287, n. 311 in the catalog
Provenance
On the occasion of the second quinquennial exhibition of the “Salon des boursiers du voyage” at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1907, Laporte-Blairsy, award holder in 1896, exhibited, out of competition, about twenty sculptures, electric lamps, a plaster and a paper knife, as well as several drawings and paintings, as some sort of retrospective of his work. It was acknowledged that he used many foundries and editors; Susse, Hébrard, Goldscheider, Colin, Houdebine, Blot and the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres. Those compositions cast by Adrien Hébrard were without any figures and very different to the particular style he was known for. Five sculptures were exhibited: “Les Algues”, “Les Coquillages”, “Le Poulpe”, “Hippocampes” and “Crocus”.
Our sculpture is not numbered and does not bear the customary lost wax seal of the artist. It is inscribed in full Cire perdue A. A. Hébrard (“Lost wax A. A. Hébrard”). It is one of the first pieces cast by the foundry.
FISH PLATE, 1907
Long silver plate, decorated with marine monsters
Signed Bugatti and A. A. Hébrard Rue Royale Paris
Hallmarks
62 cm. long; 30.5 cm. wide
To this day, only one other example of this model is known to exist, sold at the sale of Maître Thierry de Maigret, Paris, Art Nouveau – Art Déco, 7 April 2004, lot 111
The provenance indicated in the catalog stated “Formerly in the collection of Miss S., close relation to Hébrard. Inheritance of her niece, Miss X.”
This model was exhibited at the Galerie Hébrard, 8 rue Royale, Paris, 2 – 25 December 1907
Exhibition
Galerie A.-A. Hébrard, 8, rue Royale, Paris, 2 – 25 December 1907
ReConnaître Carlo Bugatti, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 10 April – 15 July 2001, ill. p. 61, n. 79 in the exhibition catalog
Bibliography
ReConnaître Carlo Bugatti, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 2001, ill. p. 58 and p. 61, n. 79 in the exhibition catalog
PLATE, CIRCA 1900
Copper with silver inlays and an applied chased silver cicada
Signed underneath H. Husson and bearing the artist’s seal
18 cm. diameter
BOWL, 1910
Chased and hammered silver, with a relief decoration of leaves and a cockchafer
Signed and bearing the foundry mark A. Hébrard / Paris
5.5 cm. high
23.3 cm. diameter
“SENECON” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Bronze and silver, vegetal shape with an applied insect
Signed H. Husson and A. HEBRARD PARIS and bearing the mark H h in a square
18 cm. high
Exhibition
Exhibition of fifty original works by H. Husson, Galerie A.-A. Hébrard, 8, rue Royale, Paris, number 44
Bibliography
Dominique Forest, Marie-Cécile Forest, La Dinanderie Française 1900-1950, les éditions de l’amateur, Paris, 1995, ill. p. 8
BONBONNIERE, CIRCA 1900
Hammered and chased silver with a stylised decor
Signed JS under the base. Bearing the foundry mark A HEBRARD / PARIS. With silversmith mark and silver mark (boar’s head)
14 cm. high; 26.3 cm. diameter
AN IMPORTANT SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE “LIBELLULES”, CIRCA 1907
Comprising a coffee pot, a tea pot, a creamer and sugar bowl, with tray
Each item signed Bugatti, with foundry mark A. Hébrard Paris, silversmith and French
Minerva marks
The tray: 89 cm. long
25 cm. wide
Exhibition
Galerie A.-A. Hébrard, 8, rue Royale, Paris, 2-25 December 1907
Salon d’Automne, 1909
Salon de la Société des Artistes Décorateurs, 1910
Bugatti, 18 July-19 September 1999, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA, ill. p. 25, fig.
36 and under n. 38 in the exhibition catalogue
ReConnaître Carlo Bugatti, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 10 April-15 July 2001, n. 76 in the
exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 61
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, October 1909, the coffee pot ill p. 126, the other items p. 127
P. Dejean, Bugatti, Editions du Regard, Paris 1981, p. 110
Art et Décoration, April 1910, the sugar bowl and creamer ill. p. 132
L’Estampille – L’Objet d’Art, n. 358, May 2001, ill. p. 51
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau – The French Aesthetic, Andreas Papadakis publisher, 2002,
ill. p. 587
The widow of a South African magnate who had made his fortune in the Transvaal gold mines, Anna Blake settled in Paris in 1902 together with her two children. She began to accumulate works by the most important modern designers such as René Lalique, Carlo Bugatti and Lucien Gaillard.
Fascinated by the work of Carlo Bugatti, Anna Blake commissioned a large portion of the designer’s limited silver output. She soon became one of his best clients, and around 1907 commissioned a silver tea and coffee service. Receiving drawings for three different designs, and unable to make a selection, Blake commissionedall three examples the finest example decorated with dragonflies that we will have the honour to offer at Design Miami/ Basel 2017. Prolific as he was as a furniture designer and maker, Carlo Bugatti’s known silverware number only a handful of objects. The “Dragonfly” service is a unique piece that was already exhibited at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and The Cleveland Museum, Ohio.
Epitomizing Carlo Bugatti’s flights into his exotic imagination, it reflects the artist’s fascination with nature that characterized the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century.
“JEUNE FILLE SORTANT DU BAIN”, CIRCA 1905
Bronze with a black patina
Signed, with foundry mark
47 x 57 cm.
“LA DAME AU GRAND MANTEAU”
Bronze with a dark brown patina, cast after 1905
Signed, marked (M), and with foundry mark;
bearing an exhibition label at the Musée des
Arts Décoratifs, Paris,
marked 1933 and M. Hébrard; an inventory label marked 2487; and another label marked Douane Centrale / Paris
37.5 cm. high
Another example commissioned by the French State in 1904 for the Musée du Luxembourg belongs to the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, inv. LUX 214
Exhibition
Salon National des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1904, 1899 for an example in terracotta
Exposition de la statuette, Musée Galliéra, Paris, 1914, n. 152 of the exhibition catalogue
Roger Marx, un critique aux côtés de Gallé, Monet, Rodin, Gauguin…, Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, 6 May – 28 August 2006, ill. p. 237, n. 176 in the exhibition catalogue
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, June 1904, an example in plaster ill. p. 230
PLATE IN THE FORM OF A RAY, CIRCA 1907-1908
Patinated bronze, hammered and patinated copper with gold inlay
Signed h husson and stamped with foundry mark A.Hebrard/Paris
38.1 x 28.6 cm.
Exhibition
1900, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 14 March-26 June 2000, p. 286, n. 312 in the exhibition catalogue
A DINANDERIE VASE, CIRCA 1931
Hammered copper; decorated with three faces of women framed with curls, eyebrows,
eyes and mouth with silver inlays
Signed JS under the piece; with Hebrard foundry mark and Paris
23 cm. high
25 cm. diameter
Probably executed for the Exposition Coloniale of 1931
“DANSE” OR “FEMME NUE A L’ÉCHARPE”, 1906
Bronze sculpture; lost wax cast by Hébrard
Signed
34.3 cm. high
A similar example in terracotta at the musée d’Orsay, inv. n. RF3199
Model in plaster and tissue, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
Exhibition
1914, Musée Galliéra, Exposition de la statuette et du meuble qui l’accompagne
Bibliography
Musée d’Orsay. Catalogue sommaire illustré des sculptures, similar example in terracotta illustrated p. 142, n. RF3199
Breaking the Mold-Sculpture in Paris from Daumier to Rodin, Edited by Phillip Dennis Cate,
published by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, ill. p. 67, n°140,
October 23, 2005-March 12, 2006
PLATE, CIRCA 1900
Hammered copper with silver inlays decoration, a cicada in relief
Signed underneath H. Husson, stamped with the artist’s monogram
25.2 x 4.2 cm.
“LA VIGNE”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with brown patina; the base in marble
Signed, with foundry mark and numbered 13
18 cm. high
With the base: 20.5 cm. high
The base: 8 x 8 x 2.4 cm.
Bibliography
Raymond Huard, Jules Desbois, ill. p. 65
PLATE “SIRENE”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a brown patina; details highlighted with gold and silver
Signed
40 cm. diameter
Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1903
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, 2nd volume, 1903, Armand Guérinet (editor)
ill. pl. 152, 153
