HESTAUX Louis (1858-1919)

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LOUIS HESTAUX – “NYMPHE, LIBELLULE ET CRAPAUD” MIRROR, CIRCA 1900

“NYMPHE, LIBELLULE ET CRAPAUD” MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted pearwood and beveled mirror
Signed below
113 cm. high; 50 cm. wide

Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1914, n. 2388 in the exhibition catalogue
Louis HESTAUX – Collaborateur de Gallé, Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, 1982, n. 69 in the exhibition catalogue

Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist’s family

A painter and wood carver, Louis Hestaux starts working for Emile Gallé at the age of 18 and soon becomes his closest and most trustful collaborator. He played a leading role in the design and conception of exceptional pieces of glass
and furniture which were exhibited at the Expositions Universelles of 1889 and 1900.
At Gallé’s death he became the firm’s artistic director. From 1882 until his death he exhibited for his own account paintings, drawings and carved wooden objects of symbolist inspiration and of rare beauty and artistic finesse.
He was a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and a board director of the school of Nancy since its creation in 1901.

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LOUIS HESTAUX – CARVED WOODEN TRAY, CIRCA 1900

CARVED WOODEN TRAY, CIRCA 1900
Mother-of-pearl inlay decorated with five bathers
22.5 x 54.5 cm.

Exhibition
Exposition de l’Ecole de Nancy, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 1903

Provenance
Formerly in the Benedict Silverman collection, New York

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EMILE GALLE – LOUIS HESTAUX – “CHAUVE-SOURIS ET PAVOTS” BOTTLE, CIRCA 1890-1892

“CHAUVE-SOURIS ET PAVOTS” BOTTLE, CIRCA 1890-1892
After a design by Louis Hestaux
Multilayered and parly hammered glass, acid-etched and wheel-carved decor of a bat and poppies
Signed underneath: Emile Gallé fecit.
24.5 cm. high

Exhibition
Exposition Emile Gallé et Toulouse-Lautrec / Lumières et couleurs de la Belle Epoque, 1995, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, p. 30 et 31 in the exhibition catalogue, n. 16
Exhibition on Emile Gallé in five museums in Japan between April 2000 and March 2001, ill. p. 57, 58 and 59, n. 19 in the catalogue.
Gallé et le Japonisme, 2008, Tokyo-Osaka, n. 62 in the exhibition catalogue
Emile Gallé / Nature & Symbolisme / Influences du Japon, Musée Départemental
Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 5 May-30 August 2009, ill. p. 135, n.114
Bestiaire de verre, de la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours, Musée du verre, Conches en Ouche, 9 March-24 November 2019, ill. pp. 16, 17

Bibliography
Janine Bloch-Dermant, L’Art du verre en France 1860-1914, Edita Denoël, 1974, ill. p. 63

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LOUIS HESTAUX – CARVED WOODEN TRAY, CIRCA 1900

CARVED WOODEN TRAY, CIRCA 1900
Representing a lyre player and a singer or a
poetess on a crescent moon and an undergrowth background
The back is carved with a decor of bird and branches
Bears an old label and numbered 18, signed lower left L. Hestaux
33 x 16.5 x 2 cm.

Acquired directly from the family in May 2008