Art Nouveau & Art Déco - Gallery in Monaco
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Large stoneware vase decorated with stylized foliage and flowers, heightened with gilt
From the Rue Blomet period, after 1882
Signed with the incised H&C rosary mark, numbered 5, marked R,B,3,1
Height: 41 cm.
Bibliography
An identical vase decorated with swallows and honeysuckle is illustrated in Marc Ducret, Ernest Chaplet, la révolution du Rouge de Cuivre, Éditions Louvre Victoire, 2021, p. 81.
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Large ovoid stoneware vase, decorated with an incised frieze of polychrome flowers on a green-glazed ground, with gilt highlights, against a reddish-brown ground.
Signed with the incised H&C rosary mark, numbered 25, marked R,B,3,1
Height: 38 cm.
CYLINDRICAL VASE, CIRCA 1900
Cylindrical vase decorated with gilded enamel foliage and stylized flowers with white-enamelled petals
The neck is highlighted in fine gold
Incised signature: A D Sèvres
Height: 12 cm.
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Baluster vase, decorated with a latticework pattern and stylized flowers
Incised signature: A D Sèvres
Height: 22 cm.
VASE, 1924
High-fired ceramic, pear-shaped vase on a small foot, decorated in gray and green with copper-colored highlights, depicting two reclining nude women among foliage
Signed underneath with interlaced R & B
Exhibition
René Buthaud, musée des Arts décoratifs de Bordeaux, 1976, n.48 in the exhibition catalogue
René Buthaud Exhibition, Maison Gérard, New York, 1987
Bibliography
Gironde -Magazine, December 1987
Cruège, Pierre: René Buthaud, Les Éditions de l’Amateur, 1996, illustrated in full-page color, n. 129
Provenance
Former collections:
René Buthaud
Michel Fortain
“LE SECRET”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a brown patina
Signed, with foundry mark and numbered S291
The base in wood bearing the inscription Les artistes du théātre Michel / à leur ami et régisseur / Charles Maudru / 1893-1907
62.2 cm. high
Bibliography
L'Art Décoratif, March 1900, ill. p. 230
“L'année suivante (1894), il s'essaye à une oeuvre de dimension importante : La Maquette du Monument de Joséphin Soulary et à trois statuettes : sculpture monumentale et sculpture intime. Jamais du reste Fix-Masseau ne se dépassera lui-même dans sa compréhension si délicate de la statuette telle qu'elle nous apparaīt en des oeuvres comme l'Eve des Rèves, Le Secret et la Folle du Sonnet, cette dernière vivante et vibrante, les cheveux au vent, emportée par l'ardeur de sa course. Le Secret au contraire montre une sorte de mysticisme que nous retrouverons souvent chez lui. Notons en même temps, en admirant l'allongement de ce corps de femme en partie dissimulé par la draperie, que M. Fix-Masseau interprète largement la nature, mais ne la déforme jamais”.
Maurice Rheims, The Flowering of Art Nouveau, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, N.Y., n.d.
ill. p. 203, n. 251
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999,
ill. p. 76, n. 66
CARVED IVORY ELEPHANT TUSK, 1896
Signed and date 96
Height: 40 cm.
COLOCYNTH, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain with a caviar-grey glaze, decorated with seaweed motifs running from the base to the neck
With silversmith’s mark, boar’s head mark, and Gaillard stamp
Louise Baboint monogram under the base, marked Drôme
Height: 10.5 cm.
