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.
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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.
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
15 cm. high
32.5 cm diameter
Stencil enhanced with watercolor
Signed
“LA PLEUREUSE”, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze modelled as a woman covering her face
Signed
25 cm. high
FIREPLACE, CIRCA 1900
Grès with a design of leaves
Signed
101 x 108 x 31 cm.
BALUSTER VASE, CIRCA 1900
Enameled Grès with sang-de-boeuf glaze
Bearing the monogram of the artist and located at Sèvres
Height: 16.5 cm.
BALUSTER VASE, CIRCA 1900
Enameled grès with a decor of a blackbird and flowers
Signed with the circular stamp. Some firing losses at the base
Height: 27 cm.
FOUR FROGS GOURD – CIRCA 1900
Rare grès (neck reduced)
Engraved signature, numbered 27/1 and AC
Height: 23 cm.
Exhibition
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 274
“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
“BUSTE DE BÉBÉ RIANT”, 1893
Important and rare sculpture in damascened steel
Signed and dated
Height: 20 cm.
Width: 26.5 cm.
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
Height: 40 cm.
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.
FONTAINE LUMINEUSE, 1924-1927
The shape and decor designed by Henri Rapin, executed by J.-B. Gauvenet
Porcelain, the base in bronze
The top bearing the Sèvres Factory seal S 1924; at the base, a plaque is engraved
AGENCE GENERALE ELLIOTT FISHER A SON CHER VICE-PRESIDENT
F. LECHER SEVRES PARIS NOVEMBRE 1927
App. 134 cm. high without the base
Four fountains are registered in the archives at the Sèvres Factory:
One at the Mobilier National, incomplete (lower part missing)
One at the Sèvres Porcelain Factory, in excellent condition
One in an unknown location, severely damaged
Our example
Exhibition
Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris, 1925 (Pavillon de Sèvres)
L’Exposition des porcelaines de Sèvres de style Art Déco, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum,
2 October-19 December 1993, ill. p. 37, n. 30 in the exhibition catalogue
Bibliography
Les œuvres de la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, tome V: Le Luminaire, nd, ill. pl. 5, n. 3528
Jean Paul Midant, Sèvres – La Manufacture au XXème siècle, Michel Aveline editor, Paris, 1992,
ill. full page p. 76 (formerly in the Pavillon de Sèvres collection, London, the bronze base missing)
“APRÈS LE BAL”, 1901
Grès
Signed
32 x 36 x 30 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
“A LA BELLE ETOILE”, 1902
Grès depicting a couple sitting on a bench and a sleeping character on the other side of the bench
Signed
Marked Hector CACCIPUOTTI / Editeur / 65 rue Violet à Paris and Société des Artistes Réalistes, Marque déposée Paris
Height: 21 cm.
Exhibition
V. Pica, Artisti Contemporanei: Karl Millès, Emporium XXIX, no. 196, Jan. 1909, pp. 3-19, ill. p. 12
SAKE BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900
Grès overlaid with kaki green glaze, mottled yellow ocher and brown drippings
Signed with the monogram of the artist
Height: 16.5 cm.
Bibliography
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 238
BALUSTER VASE, CIRCA 1905
Gray-beige enamel on a blue background. Openwork design with stylized flowers
Signed E Decœur, engraved trefoil mark under the piece
Height: 22 cm.
Width: 16 cm.
“LES PASSIONS S’ÉLEVANT VERS LES MUSES”, 1909
Two sculptures in bronze with a black patina
Signed on each element in full letters and Alexis Rudier Fondeur à Paris
35 x 27 cm.
These are the sculptures placed above the bookcase made by Dejean for M. Paix-Séailles
Most probably unique
Exhibition
L’Art et les Artistes, March 1910, model in plaster ill. pp. 271 and 273
BOWL, CIRCA 1928-1939
Blue multilayered glass with brown, red and green inclusions. Acid-etched in light-relief and
weel-carved design of three jellyfish and two fishes on an acid etched backgound to simulate the movement of the water
Signed on the foot and located Nancy under the base
Height: 11.8 cm.
Diameter: 17 cm.
Exhibition
Bestiaire de verre, de la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours, Musée du verre, Conches, 9 March-22 September 2019, p. 50
GRIFFIN HOLDING A MIRROR, 1880-1885
Bronze with dark brown patina
Signed E Lafont on the base and bears the mark of the founder Delafontaine
Height: 54 cm.
VASE, CIRCA 1919-1922
Tinted vase with internal irregular bubbles applied with mauve glass bunches of grapes
on stylised branches in black glass, the applied mauve foot with a black border.
Executed by Eugène Gall from a model by Emile Wirtz. Signed Daum Nancy with the cross
of Lorraine.
Height : 15 cm
Exhibition
The Art of Glass Art Nouveau to Art Deco, Sunderland Museum & Art Gallery,
17 July-27 October 1996, ill. in the exhibition catalogue