LA MAISON MODERNE – BOX, CIRCA 1900
BOX, CIRCA 1900
Leather, silver and hardstone. Suede interior
Gilded monogram. Most probably executed at the La Maison Moderne workshops for leather goods.
With its key
19 x 14 x 5 cm.
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FRENCH – “LA SOURCE”
“LA SOURCE”
Repoussé and patinated leather panel. Titled at the bottom.
159 x 63 cm. (including frame)
GUSTAVE-PAUL GUÉTANT – THREE INCISED LEATHER PLATES FOR BOOK BINDINGS
THREE INCISED LEATHER PLATES FOR BOOK BINDINGS
One is signed and dated 1906 in the plate
The other two bear the atelier’s seal
MAURICE DUFRENE – LA MAISON MODERNE – PICTURE FRAME
PICTURE FRAME
Interior in moiré fabric, fully covered in brown leather
Decorated with three stylized flowers
Signed lower right
27.5 x 13.7 cm.
Exhibition
Documents sur l’Art Industriel au XXème siècle, Editions de La Maison Moderne, Paris, ill. p.11, under the number 3093-IV
Emile Seyden, Maroquinerie d’art”, L’Art Décoratif, May 1901, p. 74 to 80 : Article reserved exclusively for leather objects by Maurice Dufrène, with numerous illustrations
GEORGES BARBOTEAUX – VASE
VASE
Bronze with a brown patina featuring pine cone decorations in high relief on the sides
Signed
Height: 10 cm.
This vase is identical to the one acquired by the French State at the 1908 Salon des Artistes Français, when Barboteaux exhibited for the first time after leaving his position with René Lalique.
Exhibition
Salon des Artistes Français, 1908
Bibliography
Art et Décoration, July 1909, ill. p. 59
SOLD
GEORGES DE FEURE – “A VERLAINE”, 1894-1895
“A VERLAINE”, 1894-1895
Lithograph. Printed in olive green on cream vellum, numbered in the lower left corner
Stains, losses, and short tears at the sheet edges. Traces of adhesive in the corners on the verso. Full margins
27 × 17 cm.
HENRI JULES FERDINAND BELLERY-DESFONTAINES – “MUSE DEVANT PARIS”, 1896
“MUSE DEVANT PARIS”, 1896
Lithograph. Printed in blue on thin vellum, with remarque, signed in pencil and numbered No. I
Minor handling creases. Full margins
65 × 49.9 cm.
Framed: 70 × 88 cm.
VICTOR PROUVE – “L’OPIUM”, 1894
“L’OPIUM”, 1894
Color lithograph, edition of 100 for the 7th album of L’Estampe Originale. Blind stamp, signed in blue pencil and numbered 30. Framed.
62.5 × 40 cm.
Another example is kept in the Musée Lorrain, Nancy, in the Graphic Arts collection
Exhibition
L’Estampe originale. Artistic printmaking in France 1893-1895, New Brunswick, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1991, n. 56
Victor Prouvé 1858-1945, musée Lorrain, Nancy, May 17 – September 21, 2008, ill. p. 249, n. 246 in the exhibition catalogue
Bibliography
Stein and Karshan 56
Roger Marx, un critique aux côtés de Gallé, Monet, Rodin, Gauguin…, Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, May 6 mai – August 28, 2006, ill. p. 54
EUGENE GRASSET – “LA VITRIOLEUSE OU LA TASSE DE THE”, 1893
“LA VITRIOLEUSE OU LA TASSE DE THE”, 1893
Black chromolithograph, hand-colored with stencil in 6 colors, on heavy cream vellum,
with full margins. Example n. 93/100 of the original edition published in L'Estampe moderne,
Album VI (April–June 1894). Bearing the monogram on the plate, signed and numbered in pencil,
with the editor's blind stamp in the margin
59.4 x 43 cm.
The blind stamp was designed by Alexandre Charpentier
Similar example at the Musée lorrain, Nancy
Another example at the Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie Jacques Doucet, Paris
Exhibition
Roger Marx, un critique aux côtés de Gallé, Monet, Rodin, Gauguin…, Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, May 6 – August 28 2006, ill. p. 299, n. 237
Eugène Grasset, 1845-1917. L'art et l'ornement. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, March 18 – June 13, 2011, n. 91 ill. p. 78
Bibliography
L'Estampe originale, première année, Edition du Journal des Artistes, Paris 1893, Grasset,
ill. p.78 full page color
Anne Murray-Robertson, Grasset – Pionnier de l'Art Nouveau, Bibliothèque des Arts,
Paris, 1981 ill. p. 207
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999,
ill. p. 52, n. 40
PIERRE-ROGER CLAUDIN – “EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE DE L’EST DE LA FRANCE”, 1909
“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
BERNARD HOETGER – “FILLETTE SE CHAUSSANT”
“FILLETTE SE CHAUSSANT”
Bronze sculpture with brown patina
Signed B. Hoetger Paris
19 x 11 x 11 cm.
ALIX MARQUET – SCULPTURE, CIRCA 1900
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.
MAURICE GUIRAUD-RIVIERE – EDMOND ETLING , Editor – “BACCHANTE”
“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)
ALFRED DAGUET – BOOKENDS, CIRCA 1900
BOOKENDS, CIRCA 1900
Wood and repoussé copper
Unsigned
Each: 38.5 x 15 cm.
PAUL BONNAUD – “VIERGE A L’ENFANT”
“VIERGE A L'ENFANT”
Polychrome enamel on copper
Signed
21 x 15 cm.
FRENCH – PILLBOX, CIRCA 1900
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.
EDGAR-WILLIAM BRANDT – DAUM FRERES – CEILING LIGHT
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.
EDGAR-WILLIAM BRANDT – DAUM FRERES – CEILING LIGHT
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.
MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – LOUIS-JULES MIMARD – “VASE DE CREUSOT”, 1898
“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.
ABEL LANDRY – “FLANEUSE N. 43” ARMCHAIR
“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
ABEL LANDRY – COLIN & CIE. – TRAY, CIRCA 1900
TRAY
Silvered bronze, decorated with foliage. Handles shaped as snakes
Signed A Landry and Colin
Length: 67 cm.
Width: 34.5 cm
Exhibition
Salon de 1903
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, 1903, Armand Guérinet éditeur, ill. pl. 187
ABEL LANDRY – LA MAISON MODERNE – PAIR OF CANDELABRAS
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
ABEL LANDRY – LA MAISON MODERNE – PAIR OF CANDELABRAS, CIRCA 1900
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”
ABEL LANDRY – CANDLESTICK, CIRCA 1900
CANDLESTICK, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze with its receptacle and match scraper
Signed
Height: 18.5 cm.
Width: 18.2 cm.