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“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”.
VASE, 1913
Ceramic with a polychrome stylized floral decor in a Persian style
Signed in gold and dated 1913
28 cm. high
“LA DOULEUR”, 1907
Grès overlaid with green glaze
Signed and dated
35 cm. high
32 cm. wide
19 cm. deep
Bibliography
Marc Ducret and Patricia Montjaret, L’école de Carriès, art céramique à Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye
1888-1940, Paris, éditions de l’Amateur, 1997, similar example ill. p. 125
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics / An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, similar example ill. p. 349
“LA NIGELLE DES PRES”, AN IMPORTANT FOOTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
Marquetry and finely wheel-carved glass, the pink surface overlaid with white
and blue flowers and an applied motif of brown branches
Engraved Gallé
20.5 cm. high
No other example of this design is known to exist
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, 1900, Paris
Bibliography
Gallé, exhibition catalogue, musée du Luxembourg, 29 November-2 February 1986,
éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, ill. p. 54 in the “Les granges” vitrine
A SYMBOLIST FIGURAL GROUP, CIRCA 1897
Agnès de Frumerie, Attributed to (sculptor)
Earthenware, featuring three nudes emerging from waves, in shades of blue and mauve
Signed
16 cm. high
21 cm. long
Bibliography
Quoted by Louis de Fourcaud, Revue des Arts décoratifs, 1897, p. 231:
“Quelques vases à figurines agitées, pleines de bonnes intentions et d’incertitudes techniques,
de Mme Kjelberg de Frumerie ont été traduits par M. Lachenal en une pâte céramique à couverte mate,
vert pâle ou vert conjugué de bleu”
VASE, 1913
Enamelled floral decor with applied openwork design
Signed with the monogram of the artist; marked Methey 1913
32 cm. high
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, Gand, 1913
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Polychrome earthenware with a design of flower buds and leaves
Signed KG/Lunéville/Majorelle
48 cm. high
TABLE, CIRCA 1901-1902
Mahogany, marquetry and brass table with a floral decor in marquetry
91 cm. high
73 cm. wide
52 cm. deep
Bibliography
Alastair Duncan, Fin de siècle masterpieces from the Silverman collection, 1989, similar example ill. p. 118, n. 58
“SERPENT” DESK MAGNIFYING GLASS, CIRCA 1900
Brown patinated bronze, designed as two coiling snakes holding a citrine cabochon in their fangs
Signed
Possibly unique
No other example known to exist
27 cm. long
VASE “CHARDON”, CIRCA 1900
Glazed stoneware
28.5 cm. high
Similar example at the musée de l’Ecole de Nancy
Exhibition
Exposition de la Céramique, Esplanade des Invalides, Paris 1900
Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, 1903
Nancy 1900 – Jugendstil in Lothringen, Münchner Stadtmuseum, 28 August 1980-6 January 1981,
n. 410, n. 67
Céramiques végétales – Ernest Bussière et l’Art Nouveau, musée de l’Ecole de Nancy,
21 June-25 September 2000, ill. p. 46, n. 48
Bibliography
La Lorraine, July 1900, ill. p. 27
Der Moderne Stil, volume 4, Julius Hoffmann junior, ill. pl. 50
Klopp, Gérard, Nancy 1900 – Rayonnement de l’Art Nouveau, 1991, n. 217
Jean-Paul Midant, L’Art Nouveau en France, L’Aventurine, Paris, 1999, ill. p. 35
VASE “LOTUS”, CIRCA 1900
Fine wheel-cut and fire-polished cameo glass
Signed in cameo, the underside marked Gesch & depose
35 cm. high
VASE, 1924
Polychrome enamelled crackled ceramic, featurig three stylized women sitting in different postures
Signed R & B and dated 1924
32 cm. high
Bibliography
Pierre Cruège René Buthaud 1886-1986, les éditions de l’amateur, 1996, front cover page and p. 79
“PORTRAIT OF A MODERN WOMAN”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on canvas
Original carved wood frame
73 x 60 cm.
“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
VASE “CYCLAMENS”, 1898-1900
Flattened glass with intercalary inclusions, decor in marquetry
finely wheel carved
Signed
22 cm. high
Bibliography
Richard Dennis, The Glass of Emile Gallé, Antiques International, London 1967, p. 189, pl. 17
COLOQUINTE VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass with inclusions, decoration of waterlilies in marquetry and chased
Signed
25 cm. high
VASE “CINERAIRES”, CIRCA 1910
Clear glass with white, yellow and blue inclusions
The flowers and leaves are acid-etched and wheel carved
Signed
40.5 cm. high
Bibliography
Clotilde Bacri, Daum, Michel Aveline éditeur, 1992, ill. p. 68
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Glazed ceramic
The pierced base in brown ceramic
Signed, dated and located T. DOAT 1900 Sèvres underneath
16.5 cm. high
MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
In sculpted and patinated wood; with its box in sculpted and patinated wood
The mirror and the box signed
Mirror: 39 x 14,6 cm.
Box: 43 x 18 cm.
“APPARITIONS” BROOCH, CIRCA 1900
Gold, enamel, ivory and cabochons topaz
Signed; with gold mark and maker’s mark
6 x 4 cm.
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, groupe XV, classe 95 (now at the Musée d’Orsay), ill. in colour on the cover
of the Decorative Arts catalogue of the Musée d’Orsay
Le Bijou 1900, Hôtel Solvay, Bruxelles, May 1965, n. 83
French Jewellery of the Nineteenth Century, Wartsky, Londres, 13-23 June 2001, ill. in color on the cover of the 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. 232, n. 170 in the exhibition catalogue
Eugéne Grasset, 1845-1917. L’art et l’ornement. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 18 March-13 June 2011,
n. 167, ill. p. 149
Bibliography
Maud Ernstyl, Les Bijoux d’Art à l’Exposition de 1900, Revue de la Bijouterie, Joaillerie, Orfèvrerie, n. 9, January 1901, ill. p. 152
Henri Vever, La Bijouterie française au XIXème siècle, Paris, 1908, ill. p. 669
International Exhibition of Modern Jewellery 1890-1961, Goldsmith’s Hall, London 1961 n. 352
G. Hughes, Modern Jewelry. An International Survey 1890-1964, London 1964, p. 103, ill. n. 172
Jean Lanllier, Marie-Anne Pini, Fünf Jahrhunderte abendländischer Schmuckkunst, München 1971, ill. p. 205
Victor Arwas, Berthon & Grasset, Academy editions, London, 1978, ill. p. 82
Anne Murray-Robertson, Grasset – Pionnier de l’Art Nouveau, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1981, ill. p. 90
Les Fouquet, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Flammarion, 1983, ill. p. 20
Vivienne Becker, Art Nouveau Jewelry, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1985, ill. p. 56, ill. n. 62
Michael Koch, Evelyne Possémé & al., Pariser Schmuck Vom Zweiten Kaiserreich zur Belle Epoque, Hirmer Verlag München, 1989, ill. p. 202, n. 123
A. Kenneth Snowman & al., Ma?tres Joailliers, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1990, repr. p. 150
Art Nouveau 1890-1914, V & A publications, 2000, ill. p. 23
Philippe Thiébaut et al., l’ABCdaire du Symbolisme et de l’Art Nouveau, Flammarion, Paris, 1997, ill. p. 51
Rolende van Strydonck de Burkel, Le Bijou Art Nouveau en Europe, Editions Racine, Bruxelles, 1998, ill. p. 96
Anne Murray-Robertson, Eugène Grasset – Un certain regard de la femme, 1998, ill. p. 50
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999, ill. p. 259, n. 261
GOLD, ENAMEL BROOCH, CIRCA 1900
Designed as a vine leaf in translucent enamel; the grape is decorated with opals
Signed
7 x 5 cm.
GOLD, ENAMEL, PERIDOT, PEARL PENDANT, CIRCA 1900
Bearing the monogram of the artist
With eagle’s head and maker’s mark
Bibliography
We can compare this pendant to a pendant exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1901 and ill. in l’ Art Décoratif, July 1901, p. 142
Mario Amaya, Art Nouveau, Studio Vista Limited, 1966, ill. p. 113
Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt, Jugendstil schmuck – Die europäischen Zentren – Von 1895 bis 1915, Wilhem Heyne Verlag, München, 1998, similar example ill. p. 57
Imperishable Beauty – Art Nouveau Jewelry, MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, ill. p. 140, (Collection Sataloff)
GOLD AND ENAMEL NECKLACE, CIRCA 1900
Featuring a woman in chased gold encircled with green enamel flowers. Her hair and the flowers are chased on the reverse
With its original gold chain
GOLD, ENAMEL, DIAMONDS, OPAL NECKLACE, CIRCA 1903
Translucid enamel thistles circled by diamonds. The hearts are decorated with grapes in opal
Signed; with silversmith’s mark
In its original box
35 cm. long
Exhibition
From Slave to Siren, The Duke University Museum of Art, 1971, Durham, North Carolina, USA, pl. 13, n. 153
Artistic Luxury – Fabergé Tiffany Lalique, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 19 October 2008-18 January 2009
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 7 February 2009 – 31 May 2009, ill. p.112 in the exhibition catalogue
Bibliography
Dora Jane Janson, From Slave to Siren, p. 72, pl. 13