Read more VICTOR PROUVE – “PORTRAIT DE MLLE PAUL”, 1891 “PORTRAIT DE MLLE PAUL”, 1891 Pastel on wood panel Signed and dated 1891 The frame in “bois de Sainte-Lucie” (prunus mahaleb) With the frame: 193 x 135 cm. Exhibition Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1892, n. 1331 Bibliography Chantal Humbert, Les Arts Décoratifs en Lorraine de la fin du XVIIème siècle à l’ère industrielle, les éditions de l’amateur, ill. p. 136
Read more RUPERT CARABIN – “FEMME AU CHAT”, 1897-1898 “FEMME AU CHAT”, 1897-1898 Patinated gilt bronze Signed 49 cm. high Exhibition Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1898 Musée Galliéra, Paris 1934-1935 L’oeuvre de Rupert Carabin, Galerie du Luxembourg, 1974, n. 86 in the exhibition catalogue François-Rupert Carabin, Musée d’Art Moderne de Strasbourg and Musée d’Orsay, 1993, ill. p. 87, n. 66 in the exhibition catalogue Bibliography Catalogue de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1898 G. Geffroy: La vie artistique, 1898, p. 354 Catalogue de l’exposition Carabin au musée Galliéra, 1934-1935 L’oeuvre de Rupert Carabin, Galerie du Luxembourg, 1974, ill. p. 178
Read more EDWARD COLONNA – ART NOUVEAU BING – SALON SUITE, CIRCA 1900 SALON SUITE, CIRCA 1900 Carved mahogany; comprising: One sofa, two armchairs, two chairs The sofa: 93 cm. high; 161.5 cm. wide Each armchair: 101 cm. high; 64 cm. wide Each chair: 92.5 cm. high; 46 cm. wide Exhibition Another example of this salon suite was exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, Paris, in Siegfried Bing’s pavilion, L’Art Nouveau Bing, with a multitude of artworks including jewellery by Edward Colonna and other furniture and decorative objects by Georges de Feure, Eugène Gaillard and Marcel Bing
Read more GEORGES TONNELIER – “DANSEUSE NUE AUX CYMBALES”, CIRCA 1900 “DANSEUSE NUE AUX CYMBALES”, CIRCA 1900 Satin finish rock crystal; the base in fluorspar Signed 23 cm. high; 31.5 cm. high including the base A very fine stone carver, Georges Tonnelier worked mainly with the jeweller Falize His works are only found in museums and major institutions. The Walter Arts Museum in Baltimore, Maryland has four rock crystal statuettes and one other is at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia
Read more JULES PAUL BRATEAU – SMALL CASKET, CIRCA 1900 SMALL CASKET, CIRCA 1900 Pâte d’émail Signed 5 cm. high; 8 cm. long; 5 cm. wide The mount attributed to Castel-Cléret (the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts catalogue of 1910 mentions Brateau objects mounted by the firm of Castel-Cléret). Bibliography Janine Bloch-Dermant, Guidargus de la Verrerie, 1988, ill. p. 323
Read more ERNEST WANTE – “ANDROMEDE”, CIRCA 1900 “ANDROMEDE”, CIRCA 1900 Bronze with gilt and green brown patina Titled and signed 28 x 10 x 11 cm.
Read more BERNARD HOETGER – “STEHENDES MÄDCHEN” (“L’ENFANT”), CIRCA 1901 “STEHENDES MÄDCHEN” (“L’ENFANT”), CIRCA 1901 Bronze with a brown patina Signed 20.5 cm. high Bibliography Pierre Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXème siècle, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs, les Editions de l’Amateur, 1989, model mentioned p. 379
Read more EMILE ZIEGLER – SET OF 6 SPOONS AND A SUGAR TONG, CIRCA 1900 SET OF 6 SPOONS AND A SUGAR TONG, CIRCA 1900 Silver with a floral design In its fitted box With French Minerva mark and silversmith mark Spoons: 11.9 cm. long Sugar tong: 10.5 cm. long
Read more FRENCH – PAIR OF VASES, CIRCA 1900 PAIR OF VASES, CIRCA 1900 Marble. Gilt bronze mount with a design of thistle leaves 50 cm. high
Read more CHARLES DUBRET – SERVING SET, CIRCA 1900 SERVING SET, CIRCA 1900 Vermeil, comprising 12 spoons and a shovel With an incised and patinated design of flowers; each different The handle is openwork and decorated with bellflowers In its fitted box of la maison Ch. Dubret, 83 rue de la Liberté, Dijon With French minerva mark and silversmith mark (PG & Cie) attributed to Pierre Galli Spoon: 14 cm. long Shovel: 26.7 cm. long
Read more MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – LÉON KANN, form designer – COFFEE SERVICE “FENOUIL”, 1898 COFFEE SERVICE “FENOUIL”, 1898 White porcelain (PN) glazed white with green highlights comprising coffee pot, milk pot, sugar bowl, two cups and saucers and matching tray Bearing the manufacturer’s oval stamp for 1898 under each piece Exhibition Sèvres 1900, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, cup and saucer ill. p. 33 in the exhibition catalogue 1900, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 14 March-26 June 2000, ill. p. 282, no. 301 in the exhibition catalogue Bibliography La Décoration Moderne, XIIIème année, 1905-1906, pl. 7 Frédéric Descouturelle, Olivier Pons, La céramique et la lave émaillée d’Hector Guimard, Edition du Cercle Guimard, p. 12
Read more MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – AGATHON LEONARD – “DANSEUSE AUX FLAMBEAUX A DROITE”, N. 15, 2eme GRANDEUR, CIRCA 1900 “DANSEUSE AUX FLAMBEAUX A DROITE”, N. 15, 2eme GRANDEUR, CIRCA 1900 Biscuit, the carved bases with a relief decoration of leaves and cabochons highlighted with gold Height of the sculpture: 38 cm. Height of the base: 11.2 cm. The model exists in two different heights: 57 and 38 cm. Between 1901 and 1923, 59 examples of each version were executed. The bases were bought directly from the Sèvres Factory. This series is part of a set composed of fifteen different models that were presented at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. A complete set was given as a diplomatic gift to the Csar and Empress of Russia in October 1901. Other complete sets are in the French Embassy in Prague, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and at the Musée national de Céramique at Sèvres Exhibition Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1897, section sculpture. A. Léonard exhibits 10 models representing le jeu des écharpes Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900 Bibliography Émile Bourgeois & Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, tome II, Pierre Lafitte & Cie, Paris, 1909, ill. pl. 17, no. 1119 Agathon Léonard Le geste Art nouveau, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Roubaix and Musée département de l’Oise à Beauvais, 2003, ill. p. 48, no. 23
Read more MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – “VASE DE CLERMONT” C PN, 1903 “VASE DE CLERMONT” C PN, 1903 White porcelain glazed yellow and green on a pink and green background; carved and patinated bronze mount with a pinecone motif Bearing the manufacturer’s stamp for 1908 64 cm. high 44 cm. diameter Bibliography Alexandre Sandier & Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, Formes et décors modernes de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, 1913, pl. 16, for two similar vases decorated by Genevieve Rault with bronze bases
Read more PHILIPPE WOLFERS – PITCHER, CIRCA 1900 PITCHER, CIRCA 1900 Gilt bronze decorated with a swan and water lilies 41.7 cm. high Signed Exhibition Exposition Universelle, Brussels, 1897 Charleroi Exhibition, 1898 Bibliography “Un service à toilette en vermeil et en cristal, d’une étonnante richesse, doit aussi être mentionné. Le thême du décor, c’est l’aurore, le réveil de la nature. Sur la pièce principale, c’est-à-dire le broc, est représenté en demi-relief un cygne qui s’ébat dans un étang, que le soleil éclaire de ses feux et à la surface duquel s’étalent des feuilles de nénuphars. Enveloppant le contour du broc de ses deux ailes à moitié ouvertes, comme pour faire sa toilette, le cygne tord son long col dans un geste nonchalant, et son bec s’allonge jusqu’à l’orifice du récipient pour en aspirer l’eau. L’idée est originale, charmante ; il s’en faut de peu que l’œuvre ne soit parfaite”. Victor Champier, L’Exposition Universelle de Bruxelles, La Revue des Arts Décoratifs, 1897, p. 390. Illustration of the pitcher p. 361 The Studio, November 1898, ill. p.136 (charleroi exhibition).
Read more PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – LA MAISON MODERNE – “SILHOUETTE LA BERTHON CHINEHOLD”, “LE COUP DE VENT”, CIRCA 1900 “SILHOUETTE LA BERTHON CHINEHOLD”, CIRCA 1900 Glazed grès Bearing a label Silhouette La Berthon Chinehold Grès Dalpayrat 17.5 cm. high “LE COUP DE VENT”, CIRCA 1900 Glazed grès Bearing a label Silhouette La Berthon Chinehold. Grès Dalpayrat; bearing the manufacturer’s stamp 15 cm. high
Read more PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – VIDE-POCHE, CIRCA 1900 VIDE-POCHE, CIRCA 1900 Red, blue, green enameled grès Signed VD Bibliography “Je dois mentionner aussi, dans le domaine du grès, les pièces flambées du malheureux Voisin-Delacroix, mort depuis peu, en collaboration avec M. Adrien Dalpayrat. On ne peut reprocher à cette production que certaines bizarreries de modelage, des amalgames de formes animales ou de formes humaines, et de masses plus ou moins confuses pétries au hasard. On ne me fera point admirer tels petits vases embasés en ergots de coq, ou tels objets indéterminés tenus par une main de femme. Ne m’objectez pas que l’étude de la matière prime ici le sujet plastique. La recherche du potier en face de son four ne s’accomode d’aucun manque de goût. Je formule, d’ailleurs, cette réserve d’autant plus nettement que plusieurs morceaux de Voisin-Delacroix et de M. Dalpayrat sont d’une grande valeur” L. de Fourcaud, Les Arts Décoratifs aux Salons, Revue des Arts Décoratifs, 1893-1894, p. 7 Provenance Private collection, Switzerland
Read more PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – “ANDROMEDE ENCHAINEE NUE SUR UN ROCHER”, CIRCA 1900 “ANDROMEDE ENCHAINEE NUE SUR UN ROCHER”, CIRCA 1900 Green enameled grès. The base in red enameled grès Signed Provenance Private collection, Switzerland
Read more PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – IMPORTANT PITCHER, CIRCA 1900 IMPORTANT PITCHER, CIRCA 1900 Glazed grès Signed underneath 26 cm. high Exhibition Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900 Adrien Dalpayrat (1844-1910) – Céramiste de l’Art Nouveau, 1998 Fondation Neumann, Gingins, Switzerland Kreismuseum Zons, Germany Musée de l’Ile de France, Sceaux, France Museum voor Sierkunst & Vormgeving, Gent, Belgium Bibliography Der Modern Stil, Julius Hoffmann jr, A. Guérinet, Librairie d’Art Décoratif, Paris, vol. 3, 1901, pl. 25, in the sideboard by Eugène Gaillard at the 1900 Exposition Universelle Horst Makus & al., Adrien Dalpayrat – Céramiste de l’Art Nouveau, Arnoldsche, 1998, ill. p. 132, n. 67 Frédéric Descouturelle, Olivier Pons, La céramique et la lave émaillée d’Hector Guimard, Edition du Cercle Guimard, p. 16 Provenance Private collection, Switzerland
Read more PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – MAURICE BIAIS – LA MAISON MODERNE – “ELEGANTE AU MANCHON”, CIRCA 1900 “ELEGANTE AU MANCHON”, CIRCA 1900 Polychrome glazed grès Signed 14 cm. high
Read more ANATOLE FRANCE – GEORGES ROCHEGROSSE – G. G. LEVITSKY, Bookbinder – “THAIS” “THAIS” Fifteen illustrations, the frontispice in colour by Georges Rochegrosse, etched by E. Decisy (P. Ferroud, 1909, in.8). Red moroccan leather binding, end papers illustrated with two watercolours by Georges Rochegrosse, an inner mount of mosaic lotus and papyrus design and a outer mount of lotus and paphnutius design. Inner binding by Levistsky. This example is on Japon paper with two etchings before the letters with remarques
Read more ALBERT BARTHOLOME – SIOT-DECAUVILLE – HAND MIRROR, CIRCA 1900 HAND MIRROR, CIRCA 1900 Gilt bronze Signed and numbered K 592 37 x 14 cm. Exhibition Catalogue de la maison Siot-Decauville, ill. p.107
Read more CHARLES MAURIN – “FEMME A L’ENFANT AU MIROIR” “FEMME A L’ENFANT AU MIROIR” Charcoal and pastel on paper Signed lower right 62 x 48 cm.
Read more VICTOR MOULINET – “L’ETOILE DES INCONNUS”, CIRCA 1900 “L’ETOILE DES INCONNUS”, CIRCA 1900 Indian ink and color. Signed lower left and marked: X, Etoile des inconnus ! jambes et bras ouverts, tout nus. Croix charnelle ou l’homme s’immole 26.5 x 19.3 cm.
Read more LUCIEN BONVALLET – ANTOINE-ERNEST CARDEILHAC – TWO HANDLED FOOTED VASE, 1897 TWO HANDLED FOOTED VASE, 1897 Engraved, repoussé and applied silver Signed CARDEILHAC and bearing Minerva and makers marks 30.5 cm. high Exhibition Salon de la Libre Esthétique, 1897 Bibliography Victor Champier, L’Exposition Universelle de Bruxelles (2ème article) – L’Art et l’Industrie en Belgique – l’Exposition Française, Revue des Arts Décoratifs, 1897, ill. p. 389: “M. Cardeilhac se distinguait par des vases exécutés au repoussé, d’une composition particulièrement élégante”.