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Auction No. 092 'Art Nouveau - Art Déco' on 26.10.2010

Auction No. 092 on 26.10.2010 - 12 p.m. CET
Art Nouveau - Art Déco

Viewing:
21./22. Oct. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
23./24. Oct. 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
25. Oct. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.


 

Pre auction report

Around 800 lots will be hammered down at Quittenbaum’s on 26 October.

15 animal figurines by the Emile Gallé workshop are a prelude to the auction. As early as the 19th Century, the designs of cats and dogs in an East-Asian manner had been popular as a playful decoration for the salon. While swan and hare of the Gallé workshop featured a pattern of fine flowers that gives them a rather surralist air, one of the sitting cats (€ 8,000) has a running glaze in black, blue and brown. The pair of pugs had been a commissioned work. Baron the Rothschild had them ordered after he had returned from the French-German war 1870/71 where he had lost his eye. „Monsieur le Baron“ has a left blind eye just like the commissioner, „Monsieur le Comte“ represents Rothschild’s friend, Count Polignac (€ 15,000). These figurines come from a North-German noble house, as do most of the animals.

As a glass artist, Emile Gallé offers a high-quality choice as well. Most prominent a vase with landscape that had been exhibited at the Paris World Fair in 1900, standing in the famous „Repos de la solitude“ showcase (€ 12,000). Another gem, a ‚Japanese’ vase with a cicada in the shape of a bamboo cane, made prior to 1890 and under the influence of Eugène Rousseau. (€ 9,000). Maison Gallé also manufactured furniture. Quittenbaum can offer this time a showcase with inlaid landscape and magpie (€ 14,000).

The Daum choice spans from the earliest products to Art Déco pieces. To cite especially a vase with applied marguerites, circa 1900 (€ 5,500) and a large vase with dandelion at dusk (€ 6,000). Very appealing, too, a vase with winter landscape and raven, circa 1905 (€ 14,000) and a large vase with primroses on martelé ground, circa 1913 (€ 9,000).

Two early pieces by Amalric Walter, manufactured at Daum, initiate the collection of around 35 pâte de verre objects, among them vases, bowls, vides-poches and pen holders up to an estimate of € 9,500.

Loetz brings several vases with Cytisus pattern, estimated up to € 12,000. Very rare a vase with four handles (€ 6,000). The Austria section features several nice pieces of metal by the Hagenauer workshop, among them a woman’s head, 80 centimeters high, designed by Franz Hagenauer (€ 8,000).

Franz von Stuck, Samuel Lipchytz and Ferdinand Preiss are the most prominent artists among the Bronzes section. Stuck’s Athlete, cast by Leyrer in Munich has an estimate of € 14,000 and a Wounded Centaur is estimated at € 12,000. Preiss offers a Golf player (€ 18,000) and Proserpina (€ 10,000).

The highlight of the German metal offer is a flower pot, designed by Peter Behrens for August Schmits, made for and shown at the Garden exhibition in Dusseldorf in 1904 (€ 6,000). Its geometric design follows the architectural pattern of the exhibition building.