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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.

In 1892, Victor Prouvé executed his first two major panels using the pyrography technique which he exhibited at René Wiener's shop. Both were inspired by oriental dancers. One depicted Javanese dancers (location unknown) and our exemple

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

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JULES DESBOIS – ADRIEN-AURELIEN HEBRARD – “LA COMEDIE”, CIRCA 1905

“LA COMEDIE”, CIRCA 1905
Bronze with a brown patina. Lost wax cast by Hébrard
Signed, with foundry mark

Exhibition
Musée Galliéra. Exposition du Fer Forgé, du Cuivre et de l’Etain, 1905
According to Raymond Huard and Pierre Maillot, authors of Jules Desbois sculpteur, le cherche midi éditeur, January 2000, a bronze example, cast by Hébrard, would have been exhibited in 1905 in Venice and Berlin
A statuette, in plaster, is part of the collections of the musée du Petit Palais in Paris. 0,320 x 0,180 x 0,168 cm.

Bibliography
1905, Musée Galliéra. Exposition du Fer Forgé, du Cuivre et de l’Etain. A jug in tin was executed in the workshops of SIOT-DECAUVILLE. The showcase 7 executed in copper by Henri Husson and contains: a coupe Champignon, a vase Les Nymphes , four statuettes Feuilles d’Automne, Comédie, Musique and La Fleur; Les Remous (?), a vase Satyres, deux plates Tête de femme and Nénuphars, a bowl Libellule and a small bowl with handles Libellule, a pitcher Le Houblon in tin and copper. All these objects are edited by A.-A. HEBRARD. Showcase 9: Tobacco pot in tin (SIOT-DECAUVILLE), a decorative plate in tin belonging to the museum
The small bowl Libellule is illustrated in the Rapport Général de l’Exposition by Pierre ROCHE, p. 11
Raymond Huard , Pierre Maillot, Jules Desbois sculpteur, le cherche midi éditeur, the model in plaster is illustrated p. 105, under the number 16

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DAUM NANCY – VASE CIRCA 1900

VASE CIRCA 1900
Mottled ground overlaid in blue, acid etched, and wheel carved; decorated with blue berries
The original foot was broken and replaced with a wooden one at the factory

Provenance
Acquired directly at the crystal Daum factory around 1994

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PIERRE ROCHE – “ALGUES MARINES” OR “LEZARD ET CORAIL”

“ALGUES MARINES” OR “LEZARD ET CORAIL”
Gypsograph in two colors
From an edition of 100, from “L’Estampe Originale” published by André Marty and Roger Marx
Numbered 62, signed in pencil. The double sheet on the back that contains the dry seal is missing
Similar model (n. 49) at the Fine Arts Institute of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, 1963.30.1523. Another one at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Another one (n. 86) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Exhibition
Sea Algae (Algues marines), 1893, another example in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Accession number 22.82.1-35

Bibliography
Stein and Karshan 70