“EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE DE L’EST DE LA FRANCE”, 1909
Poster printed by Berger-Levrault & Co., Nancy
Signed lower right, dedicated and dated 1909 by the artist
95 x 65 cm.
Exhibition L’Ecole de Nancy, 1889-1909, Art nouveau et industries d’art, Nancy, galeries Poirel, April 24 – July 26 1999, ill. p. 290, n. 31
SCULPTURE, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a medal and brown patina featuring a reclining nude young woman
Black marble base with brown veining
Signed and bearing the circular stamp MEDAILLE D’HONNEUR.
Length: 35.5 cm.
Height: 26 cm.
Base in marble: 38.5 x 22 x 4 cm.
“BACCHANTE”
Bronze with a green patina featuring a dancer. The base decorated with vine and grape motifs
Signed, bearing the editor’s mark
Height: 53.3 cm. (56 cm. with the base)
PILLBOX, CIRCA 1900
Pâte de verre, the mount in vermeil
The lid is decorated with gold foil and green and red powder inclusions. The upper surface is engraved
and enameled with small flowers. The leaves are encircled and gold-rimmed in shades of pink,
opal, and green. The sides are decorated with four vertical cartouches featuring the same design, framed in vermeil
Two boar’s head marks
Maker’s mark: A P (unidentified, possibly Adolphe Perrier?)
Diameter: 4.8 cm.
Height: 2.6 cm.
CEILING LIGHT
Bronze and wrought iron ceiling light decorated with Ginkgo biloba motifs, featuring four arms supporting Daum tulip shades in milky-white mottled glass, and a central Daum glass bowl
The mount is signed E BRANDT; the glass shades are wheel-engraved and signed Daum Nancy France, with the Cross of Lorraine
Total height: 104 cm.
Width: 69 cm.
CEILING LIGHT
Bronze and wrought iron ceiling light with four arms supporting orange tulip shades by Daum, and a central orange glass bowl by Daum
The ceiling light is signed: E. Brandt
The tulip shades and the bowl are signed
Height: 63 cm.
Total diameter: 67 cm.
“Vase de Creusot”, 1898
White porcelain (pâte dure nouvelle) glazed in shades of green and yellow with a decor of irisis
Signed in gold L. MIMARD and bearing the manufacturer’s stamp for 1898
and the decoration stamp for 1901
Height: 45 cm.
“FLANEUSE N. 43” ARMCHAIR
Carved oak and original tooled leather
104 x 75 x 90 cm.
The model illustrated in the catalogue of La Maison Moderne is made of antelope leather lined with silk.
Our example is identical to the one exhibited at the 1906 SAD (Société des Artistes Décorateurs)
Exhibition
Société des Artistes Décorateurs, 1906
Bibliography “Documents sur l’Art Industriel au XXe siècle”, édition de la Maison Moderne, Paris, ill p. 16 (Ameublement et Décoration)
L’Art Décoratif, January 1903, ill. p. 19
Georges de Bartha, L’Art 1900, sd, ill. p. 140
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999, ill. p. 165, n. 153
Provenance
Maison Moinat, Rolle, Switzerland
Neumann collection, Gingins, Switzerland, acquired in 1971
PAIR OF CANDELABRAS
Silvered pewter
Height: 28.5 cm.
Bibliography
Illustrated in the catalogue of La Maison Moderne The Modern Style, J. Hoffmann Jr, p. 221 Le Style Moderne: L’Art Appliqué, Revue Internationale, Première Année, H. Laurens – éditeur, 1903-1904, ill. pl. 92
PAIR OF CANDELABRAS, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze with original patina
Signed
33 cm. high
Bibliography Documents sur l’Art Industriel au XXème siècle, edited by La Maison Moderne, Paris, Les appareils d’éclairage, ill. p. 7, under the reference “Candélabre n°1561-1”
FIRESCREEN, CIRCA 1900
Rosewood with a design of magnolia flowers in mother-of-pearl and wood marquetry on
leather and copper slats
Unidentified initials
85 cm. high
88 cm. long
THEOPHILE HINGRE
LOUCHET, Chaser
Silvered bronze, featuring two dragonflies facing each other on a sprig of lily of the valley
Signed T. HINGRE and LOUCHET
9.8 cm. high
GUSTAVE GURSCHNER
LA MAISON MODERNE “MEDITATION” SEAL, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze
Height: : 9.5 cm.
Bibliography Documents sur l’Art Industriel au vingtième siècle. Reproductions photographiques des principales œuvres des collaborateurs de La Maison Moderne, La Maison Moderne, Paris 1901, La Sculpture,
ill. p. 14, seal, n. 724-1
JOE DESCOMPS
SUSSE FRERES “TANAGRA” SEAl, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze
Signed Joé Descomps and Susse Fres
Height: 9.8 cm.
FRENCH “LES VIOLETTES” SEAL, CIRCA 1900
Silver
With French Minerva mark
Height: 8 cm.
Bibliography
An identical model in gilt bronze is illustrated in Les Sceaux, Empreintes du Pouvoir, Roberto Lucio Rosaia, éditions Langlaude, p. 176
“L’HOMME QUI COURT APRES LA FORTUNE”, LES FABLES DE LA FONTAINE, 1886,
after Gustave Moreau
Black engraving on Japan paper (crease marks)
Signed G. Moreau, in progress for the proprietors M. and Mme Bounod Valadon and 5ème tirage
27.5 x 21.5 cm.
“LE SONGE D’UN HABITANT DU MOGOL”, LES FABLES DE LA FONTAINE, 1886,
after Gustave Moreau
Black engraving on Japan paper (crease marks)
Signed G. Moreau, in progress for the proprietors M. and Mme Bounod Valadon and 5ème tirage
27.5 x 21.5 cm.