LOUIS-AUGUSTE THEODORE-RIVIERE – “ADAM ET EVE”, OR “L’ETREINTE”, OR “PARADIS PERDU”, CIRCA 1900
“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…”
