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Emile Gallé - Alchemist of Art Nouveau
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It is rare to be able to admire such a wide range of Emile Gallé's works at auction. The more than 40 vases created during Gallé's lifetime come from four German and Austrian private collections. The stylistic and technical diversity of Gallé's oeuvre is almost completely documented and his world of motifs is impressively and extensively shown.
Overlay techniques and marquetry, inclusions of foils, oxides and other materials, the so-called patinage, as well as melting of cabochons and spinning to name the techniques in the hot state. Various cutting techniques, such as engraving or martelé and etching, enamel painting to name the techniques in the cold state. Historicist motifs, the mysterious world of symbolism, Japonism and Gallé's love for the plant world determine the representations on Gallé's works. All this can be admired in the glass objects, which were created in the period around 1878 until shortly before Gallé's death in 1904. |
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| | Emile Gallé, Nancy Marquetry Vase 'Orchids', 1900
Estimate:
8,000 - 12,000 €
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| | Emile Gallé, Nancy 'Clair de Lune'-Vase, a scene with a young couple in Persian style,
c. 1889
Estimate:
10,000 - 15,000 €
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| | Emile Gallé, Nancy Decanter with stopper 'Raisins',
1895
Estimate:
8,000 - 12,000 €
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The earliest works in the auction were created long before the flowering of Art Nouveau. Around 1878 he created the small vase made of clear glass 'Chasse' (cat.-no. 101). At that time, Gallé favored clear glass. It refers to works from earlier eras made in rock crystal. The hunting scene drawn in needle etching shows a hunter in fashionable 18th century clothing. The engraved volu- tes and palmettes and also the enameled borders are in Renaissance style. Works of this type were probably also shown at the Pari- ser World's Fair of 1878, where Emile Gallé presented himself for the first time exclusively with his own works of art and not with those of his father's ceramic production. At this world exhibition, Gallé also showed the so-called 'Clair de Lune' glass, a pale, slightly opalescent colored flashed glass. Four vases of this type are offered at the auction (cat.nos. 99, 100, 109, 111). One of these vases, the 'Epis de blé et Insectes', made in the second half of the 1880s, already shows clear hints of Art Nouveau. The color palette is still restrained, the basic tone shimmering green, the decoration, with its wheat ears and various insects, is in the naturalistic Japonistic style that was so important for the development of Art Nouveau. |
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| | Emile Gallé, Nancy Small historicizing vase 'Chasse', c. 1878
Estimate:
1,600 - 1,800 €
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| | Emile Gallé, Nancy Jug 'Sceau de Salomon', c. 1890
Estimate:
3,500 - 4,500 €
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| | Emile Gallé, Nancy Vase 'Pissenlit',
1898
Estimate:
2,000 - 2,500 €
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In 1898, Emile Gallé developed a surface treatment technique he called 'patine'. Gallé took advantage of a surface matting caused by impurities in the glass furnace, which one would normally want to avoid in glass production. Using a controlled process, he created a matte shimmering, slightly textured and iridescent surface. In the case of the goblet vase 'Pissenlit' (cat.-no. 128) this effect is only partially applied to the surface, probably with the help of stencils. Only the round fruit clusters, called dandelions, are brought to life in this technique.
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