“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
“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
“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
Presently on loan to the Musée du Verre François Décorchemont, in Conches-en-Ouches
PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
Grès with a floral design on a turquoise background with sang-de-boeuf glaze
Signed underneath with the initials and S (For Sèvres)
Height: 11 cm.
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
IMPORTANT FOOTED BOWL, CIRCA 1900
Silver, baluster shape, with a design of clovers. Internal and external parts engraved with undulating streaks
Bearing the French Minerva mark and silversmith mark
“MISTERIO DE LA NOCHE” (MYSTERY OF THE NIGHT), 1900-1905
Sang-de-boeuf grès in the shape of a moon profile ending at the base as joined hands
Signed with the monogram of the artist and numbered 1
Height: 18 cm.
A similar work in blue and white enamel is part of the collection of the Fina Arts Museum of Bilbao, inventory number 07/415
Bibliography
La Gran Enciclopedia Vasca, Bilbao, vol. VIII, n°80, ill. on the cover and titled “Luna”
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 153
SHOULDERED BALUSTER VASE, CIRCA 1900
Grès with a design in pâte d’émail of anemones and white rowan, yellow-green and brown on a red ocher background
Signature with stamp
IMPORTANT VASE, CIRCA 1900
Shouldered baluster vase in grès with green and burgundy drippings at the neck on a white
background, the design attributed to Maurice Dufrêne
Interior with sang-de-boeuf drippings
Signed Glatigny and numbered 277
Height: 40 cm.
Bibliography
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 188
COVERED POT, CIRCA 1900
Grès in slate color with brown and green glaze. The lid is openwork and decorated with fruits and stems
Bearing the monogram of the artist on both parts
Diameter of the base (incl. the handles): 39 cm.
Diameter of the lid (incl. the handles): 36 cm.
Height: 22 cm.
BOTTLE, 1904
Grès in a vegetal shape and a small handle at the neck
Polychrome enamel in shades of green, brown, blue and sang-de-boeuf
Signed in full and impressed with a trefoil mark
The underside with a label : Collection / Gaston Derys / 10 rue Poussin / Paris
Height: 32 cm.
Exhibition Art Nouveau Belgium / France, Houston & Chicago, 1976, similar model ill. n°266, page 187
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Vase in the shape of a bottle in light beige grès, with a design of a wreath of flowers and leaves
Signed with the monogram of the artist
The base in gilt bronze, with a design of flowers, signed with the initials of the artist
Height: 33 cm
Bibliography
L. de Fourcaud, Les Arts décoratifs au Salon de 1899 / Les objets d’art (II)
La Société Nationale Revue des Arts décoratifs, 1899, page 330 :
Michel Cazin offers us a beautiful suite of whitish, reddish and dark vases, decorated with a relief of mistletoe, oak, foliage and woven cords
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics : An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 99