Art Nouveau & Art Déco - Gallery in Monaco
“AUX LIBELLULES ET PAPILLONS” CONSOLE, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted walnut and exotic wood marquetry, mother-of-pearl inlay and bronze
Signed
138 cm. high; 74 cm. wide; 46 cm. deep
Only one variant of the design is recorded
Bibliography
A. Duncan and G. de Bartha, Gallé Furniture, Antique Collector's Club, 2012, a variant ill. p. 272, pl. 4
Provenance
Private collection, France
CONICAL VASE, 1898
Multilayered and wheel-carved conical vase with faceted corners in amber, purplish-blue and red marquetry glass, internally decorated with columbines on a background with silver foil inclusions, acid-etched, the original bronze base in the shape of leaves and spurs
Signed and dated 1898
26.1 cm. high
Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, 1898
Wood One Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan, 2005, n.33, ill. p. 36 in the exhibition catalogue
Emile Gallé – Nature and Symbol / Le Langage des Fleurs et des Choses Muettes, 16 January – 10 April 2016, Tokyo Metropolitan
Teien Art Museum; 24 April – 5 June 2016, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, n. 069, ill. p. 90
Bibliography
Revue des Arts Décoratifs, 1898, ill. p. 148
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999, ill. p. 319, n. 318
Emile Gallé et le verre, la collection du musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, Ed. Somogy, Paris, 2004, similar example ill. p. 164, n. 280
Provenance
Daimaru Museum, Japan
Other examples of this design are owned by important museums worldwide:
Kitazawa Museum of Art, Japan
Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf (Collection Gerda Koepf), Germany
Suntory Museum, Japan
Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, Nancy, France
Budapest Museum of Applied Arts, inv. n. 55.284, Hungary
“IRIS” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass vase decorated with blooming water iris in glass marquetry,
some elements wheel-cut, with six vertical hot-applied elements
Signed with a double line
Exhibition
The model was exhibited at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition,
displayed in the Les Granges showcase
Our vase was shown at the Fine Arts Exhibition in Mulhouse in 1911, no. 14, p. 90
It was also included in the Gallé exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris from 29 November 1985 to 2 February 1986
Bibliography
Émile Nicolas, M. Émile Gallé at the 1900 Exposition, in La Lorraine, 18th year, no. 11,
December 1900, p. 164, for a similar example with a dragonfly
Roger Marx, La décoration et les Industries d’Art à l’Exposition de 1900, 1901, p. 107
La Revue Lorraine Illustrée, no. 3, 1906, p. 106
Bulletin de la Société Industrielle de Mulhouse, 1911, p. 4
A similar example was sold at Christie’s Geneva on 16 November 1981 under lot no. 228 (sold for 230,000 Swiss francs plus fees to Andrée Vyncke)
Georges de Bartha, Gallé, le verre, Bibliothèque des arts, Paris, 1985, p. 105, for a similar model
Françoise Thérèse Charpentier, Philippe Thiébaut, Gallé, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 29 November 1985 – 2 February 1986, Ministry of Culture, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1985, p. 212
EXCEPTIONAL VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass with with gold leaf inclusions and blue and brown powder streaks, overlaid in black,
hammered and carved with a decor of a woman and reeds.
The mount in silver with a design of leaves on an openwork background.
Silver marks.
15.4 cm. high
SIDEBOARD, CIRCA 1900-1910
Rectangular low sideboard in fruitwood. The doors are decorated with molded panels carved in low relief with a wooded lakeside landscape, framed with carved branches. The panels are incised with the silhouette of a seated wolf—seen from behind on one panel, and from the front on the other. The drawer is bordered by a carved vegetal pattern. The oval keyhole are made of engraved metal with foliage.
Height: 93.5 cm.
Width: 143 cm.
Depth: 52 cm.
Provenance
From the descendants of Louis Hestaux
WINE JUG, CIRCA 1893
Enameled grès
Incised Bigot monogram under the base
Height: 25 cm.
Exhibition
SNBA 1893 (model in pewter)
Les Cinq, Paris 1896, n. 17
Alexandre Charpentier – Naturalisme et Art Nouveau, Paris, musée d’Orsay, 23 January- 13 April 2008 et Bruxelles, musée communal d’Ixelles, 29 May – 31 August 2008, n. 180 in the exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 175
Bibliography
J. Acheroni, Salon de 1893 – The Triumph of Pewter, Le Bambou, no. IV, illustrated periodical, pewter model illustrated p. 97
G. Mourey, The Decorative Art Movement in Paris, The Studio, March 1897, vol. X, n. 48, ill. p. 125
Madeleine Charpentier-Darcy, Introduction à l’art d’Alexandre Charpentier. Catalogue sommaire de l’oeuvre (sculpture – art décoratif), Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’art français, 1996, published 1997, ADc 45, p. 225 and manuscript
Hélène Bédague, Alexandre Bigot, Chimiste et Céramiste, éditions Louvre Victoire, Paris, 2016, ill. p.165
“LE CHANT” – “LA SCULPTURE”
Two plaques mounted on a bronze base
9.7 x 20 cm.
8.1 x 20.2 cm.
WINE JUG, 1897
Glazed porcelain
Signed and dated 1897. Numbered 2
Height: 25 cm
From a limited edition of 20 copies distributed by Marty, the printer of L’Estampe originale, each sold for 20 francs
Exhibition
SNBA 1893 (model in pewter)
Les Cinq, Paris 1896, n. 17
Alexandre Charpentier – Naturalisme et Art Nouveau, Paris, musée d’Orsay, 23 January- 13 April 2008 et Bruxelles, musée communal d’Ixelles, 29 May – 31 August 2008, n. 180 in the exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 175
Bibliography
J. Acheroni, Salon de 1893 – The Triumph of Pewter, Le Bambou, no. IV, illustrated periodical, pewter model illustrated p. 97
G. Mourey, The Decorative Art Movement in Paris, The Studio, March 1897, vol. X, n. 48, ill. p. 125
Madeleine Charpentier-Darcy, Introduction à l’art d’Alexandre Charpentier. Catalogue sommaire de l’oeuvre (sculpture – art décoratif), Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’art français, 1996, published 1997, ADc 45, p. 225 and manuscript
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics / An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015,
ill. p. 105
