From the personal collection of Émile GALLÉ Émile... - Lot 32 - Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés

From the personal collection of Émile GALLÉ Émile GALLÉ (1846-1904) Twilight. Large conical vase on flattened base and swollen shoulder. Produced in multi-layered glass, with a slightly transparent sky-blue base and brownish-brown engraved decoration and base. It features an interlayer decoration of brown maple branches and leaves on silver spangles in a blue background dappled with ochre powders, and a hot-applied decoration of black and brown maple leaves chased with a wheel. The vase rests on a ringed, conical base and bears, engraved in the hollow, the quotation from a poem by Victor Hugo, ...Et l'arbre de la route secoue au vent du soir la poussière du jour, and the inscription Émile Gallé fecit sub vesperum, (tiny indentation in the base and bubbles in between). Circa 1897. Engraved signature on the body of the vase: Émile Gallé. Height: 50.5 cm Bibliography: Catalogue des Objets d'Art Moderne, Collection Roger Marx Sale Wednesday May 13, 1914, Me Lair-Dubreuil and Me Henri Baudoin, Expert M. Geo Rouard, similar model with the same poem described under n° 79; Émile Gallé Lettres pour l'Art Correspondance 1882-1904, Éditions La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg2006, model rep. p. 140 on a period photograph at the Émile Gallé exhibition held at the Salle Poirel in Nancy in September 1894; L'École de Nancy, 1889-1909, Art Nouveau et Industries d'Art from April 24 to July 26, 1999, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, similar model rep. p. 161 on a period photograph for the Nancy decorative and industrial art exhibition, 1894; Model of the vase reproduced in a showcase by Rupert Carabin on a period pencil drawing, titled Vitrine meuble à deux faces pour Carabin. Musée Galliera R. Boutillier 1898. Exhibition: Musée Galliera, Exposition des Rénovateurs de l'Art Appliqué de 1890 à 1910, Paris, 1925 referenced in the catalog of exhibited works described on page 21 under n° 523 (for the shape of the vase) Musée Galliera. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, model for the form referenced under no. OGAL55; Paris 1900, Collections du Petit Palais, Paris Presented from October 4, 2007 to January 6, 2008 at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, referenced under no. 69- Inv. OGAL00055 for the form; "Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts Catalogue illustré des ouvrages Exposés au Champ-de-Mars le 24 avril 1897". E. Bernard et Cie Imprimeurs-Éditeur, described under no. 250 1 "Gallé (E.) Le Crépuscule du matin" page LVI. Provenance: Émile Gallé's personal collection, remained in his descendants.