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GEORGES BARBOTEAUX – VASE, CIRCA 1900

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a medal patina, design of three beetles with spread wings and inlay of silver pastilles
Signed in full letters and bearing the monogram of the artist
Height: 30 cm.

HENRI HUSSON – LARGE POT, CIRCA 1904

LARGE POT, CIRCA 1904
Patinated copper, precious metal applications and inlay
Edited by A. A. Hébrard, Paris, France
Underside incised H Husson and impressed A HEBRARD/PARIS
26.8 x 32 x 30 cm.

JAN FRANS DE BOEVER – “LES LIANES”, CIRCA 1900

“LES LIANES”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on panel
Signed
29 x 17 cm.

De Boever started to paint at the same time as he started to read and write.
A true bohemian and a romantic aesthete he was an avid reader of Tolstoï, Baudelaire,
Huysmans and the Belgian symbolist authors. Sent by his father to a “maison close” to
initiate him to the pleasures of the flesh, he catches a venereal disease which will haunt him
for the rest of his life. He soon discovers the incarnation of evil which is secretly growing in
him and the fatal and diabolical signs of seduction. His work is impregnated with a desire of revenge,
violence and flagellation. In his perspective the woman is guilty of all evils. He sees her as a virgin
and a prostitute, an idol and a slut, blood thirsty, the Devil’s servant and sister of Death.

VICTOR PROUVE – “LA DANSE DU VENTRE, SCENE DE HAREM”, 1892

“LA DANSE DU VENTRE, SCENE DE HAREM”, 1892
Fire engraved wood panel with gold and silver highlights
Signed lower left and dated 1892
160.5 x 58.5 cm.
With the frame: 170 x 69 cm.

Exhibition
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. 191, n. 110 in the exhibition catalogue
Victor Prouvé 1858-1945, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 17 May-21 September 2008, ill. p. 147, n. 30 in the exhibition catalogue

Bibliography
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, Andreas Papadakis publisher, 2002, ill. p. 169

Provenance
Collection of Mr Solvay, acquired directly from Victor Prouvé for 450 francs

LOUIS HESTAUX – TRAY, CIRCA 1900

TRAY, CIRCA 1900
Carved pearwood in the shape of a tree with foliage and branches above leaves and fruits
Signed
43 cm. long

Together with Victor Prouvé, Louis Hestaux was Emile Gallé’s closest collaborator

BERNARD HOETGER – EUGENE BLOT – LA MAISON MODERNE – “PETITES NYMPHES”, CIRCA 1900

“PETITES NYMPHES”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a brown patina
Signed and bearing the foundry seal EUG. BLOT / B. DE LA MADELEINE / PARIS
30 cm. high

Exhibition
Darmstadt Ein Dokument Deutscher Kunst 1901-1976, Die Künstler der Mathildenhöhe,
22 October 1976-30 January 1977, ill. vol. 4, p. 103, n. 328 in the exhibition catalogue
(collection Barlach-Heuer, Paris)

Bibliography
La Maison Moderne, Documents sur l’Art Industriel au vingtième siècle, nd,
Edition de la Maison Moderne, ill. p. 11, n. 3423-1
Laurence Buffet-Challié, Le Modern Style, Baschet & Cie éditeurs, nd, ill. p. 50, n. 2

EUGENE MICHEL – VASE, CIRCA 1900

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass, powdered inclusions, double overlaid, etched and wheel carved,
a glass sculpture is applied on one side, the other side with a wheel carved flower
16.8 cm high

Bibliography
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, 2002, ill. p. 442

Exhibition
Leo Kaplan, New York
Acquired in 2000 from the above

WALL SHELF, CIRCA 1900

WALL SHELF, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted oak, repoussé leather panel with mountain landscape decor
Bearing a monogramm
55 x 78 cm.

PIERRE ROCHE – “LA MORT” (DEATH), CIRCA 1900

“LA MORT” (DEATH), CIRCA 1893-1894
Patinated bronze sculpture
Signed
Height: 55 cm.

Exhibition
Intérieurs 2011 – L’Art de vivre avec l’art, Artcurial, Paris, 8-22 September 2011,
exhibited on the booth of Mrs Roxane Rodriguez

Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, April 1901, ill. p. 8 (Detail in glossy earthenware)
Art et Décoration, April 1904, ill. p. 121
Catalogue des Objets d’Art Moderne faisant partie de la Collection Roger Marx, p. 23,
n. 132 for an example in glossy terracotta
Musée des Arts décoratifs, inv.27961: “Ce buste en terre cuite polychrome appartient sans doute à un projet de décor inachevé. Le visage hiératique de La Mort est rehaussé de touches verdâtres sur les paupières et les lèvres, évoquant le bleuissement d’une noyée et accentuant l’étrangeté de l’œuvre. Cette iconographie unique dans son œuvre montre une nouvelle fois l’influence du courant symboliste dont la mort est une thématique centrale”

There is also an example of just the bust in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs:
Titre : La mort
Dénomination : buste de femme
Date : 1895
Dimensions : H : 17 cm ; L : 15,4 cm ; P : 8 cm
Inscriptions – marques : aucune
Lieu de conservation : Paris, musée des arts décoratifs (inv.27961)
Matériaux : terre cuite lustrée avec rehauts de couleur verte sur la bouche et les yeux
Historique : don de Louis Massignon et de sa soeur en souvenir de leur mère, entrée le 12 novembre 1931

FRANCOIS-EMILE DECORCHEMONT – “GRAND VASE TROIS FIGURES”, DESIGNED IN 1914, EXECUTED IN 1914-1919

“GRAND VASE TROIS FIGURES”, DESIGNED IN 1914, EXECUTED IN 1914-1919
Model n. 59, translucent and partly coloured pâte-de-verre, decorated with three relief
moulded medallions, each featuring a women set in profile
Stamped with artist circular mark
Height: 22.5 cm.

Exhibition
Véronique Ayroles, François Decorchemont Maître de la pâte de verre, éditions Norma, 2006,
ill. p. 65 and 239 for the design

Four examples of this model were executed and only one other severely damaged has appeared in auction in 2016

LOUIS ICART – WATERCOLOR

WATERCOLOR
Watercolor used for the illustration of “Gargantua and Pantagruel” by François Rabelais
Signed bottom right and annotated on the left Livre 1 Chap LV

24 x 18.5 cm.