LOUIS-AUGUSTE THEODORE-RIVIERE – “ADAM ET EVE”, OR “L’ETREINTE”, OR “PARADIS PERDU”, CIRCA 1900

“ADAM ET EVE”, OR “L’ETREINTE”, OR “PARADIS PERDU”, 1903
Bronze with a green patina; on a streaked green marble stepped base
33 cm. high

Exibition
Art de l’Ivoire, 1903, Musée Galliéra
Salon de la Société des Artistes français, 1905, Arts Décoratifs section, n. 5017 for the sculpture in ivory owned by the Ville de Paris
Exposition de la statuette et du meuble qui l’accompagne, Palais Galliéra, 1914, n. 379
Inaugural Exposition of French Art in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor,
Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California, 1924-1925, for the example in bronze exhibited under n. 197

Bibliography
Maurice Rheims, The flowering of Art Nouveau, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, n.d., the example in ivory ill. p. 203, n. 250
L’Estampille, March 1983, p. 63, n. 155 for the original example in plaster coming from the
estate of Théodore Rivière, and described as “Adam et Eve enlacés, le visage de l’homme enfoui dans le creux de l’épaule de sa compagne qui, angoissée, regarde le ciel…”.

Mrs Alma de Bretteville Spreckels donated an example in bronze of this sculpture to the
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, inv. 1937-8-6, 1948, which is
now in the collections of the Maryhill Museum, Maryhill, Washington, USA, inv.:14-19.
An example in ivory was acquired by the Ville de Paris for the collections of the Musée Galliéra, 1906. It is now at the Petit
Palais, Paris, inv. O.GAL.12.
No other examples are known to exist.