Art Nouveau & Art Déco - Gallery in Monaco
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“LES DEUX DOULEURS”, CIRCA 1910
Bronze with a black patina
Signed and bears the foundry mark of Susse Frères
Smaller version of the plaster cast of 1904
Bibliography
Colette Dumas, Théodore Rivière, sa vie … son oeuvre, nd, the plaster cast ill. n. 126
“SALAMMBÔ CHEZ MATHÔ, JE T’AIME! JE T’AIME!” OR “CARTHAGE”, 1895
Bronze with a dark brown patina, featuring two intricately sculpted figures from
the story of Carthage
Signed, and with foundry mark
64 cm. high
Exhibition
Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1895, n. 3451 (2nd class medal) for
a cast in bronze, ivory gold and turquoise that is now at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
“ADAM ET EVE”, OR “L’ETREINTE”, OR “PARADIS PERDU”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a green patina representing a naked couple, embracing; lost wax cast
Signed
33 cm. high
Another example in bronze: Gift of Mrs Alma de Bretteville Spreckels to the Museum of the Legion of Honor,
San Francisco, inv.: 1937-8-6, 1948, now at the Maryhill Museum, Washington, USA, inv.: 14-19
Another example in ivory: acquisition of the city of Paris for the Musée Galliéra collection, 1906, now at the Petit Palais,
Paris, inv. : O.GAL.129
Exhibition
Musée Galliéra, 1903, Art de l’Ivoire
Salon de la Société des Artistes français, 1905, section des Arts Décoratifs, n° 5017
Palais Galliéra, 1914 Exposition de la statuette et du meuble qui l’accompagne, n. 379
Inaugural Exposition of French Art in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park,
San Francisco, California, 1924-1925, example in bronze, n. 197
Bibliography
Maurice Rheims, The flowering of Art Nouveau“, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, n.d., example in ivory ill. p. 203, n° 250
L’Estampille, mars 1983, n° 155c, p. 63. “Adam et Eve enlacés, le visage de l’homme enfoui dans le creux de l’épaule de sa
compagne qui, angoissée, regarde le ciel…”
”DANTE ET VIRGILE”, 1903
Biscuit
Signed, marked with the manufacturer’s stamp,
stamped A.C (Alphonse Cieutat) and numbered 03.04 (April 1903)
36 cm. high
Bibliography
Colette Dumas, Théodore Rivière, sa vie, son œuvre, n. 78