Setdart Subastas S.L
Lot 1
ÉMILE GALLÉ (Nancy, France, 1846 - 1904).Art Nouveau vase, ca.1900.In multilayer glass and acid etched with flowers and foliage.Signed on one side.The vase appears to be lowered at the top mouth and has a small manufacturing hairline crack (no breakage).Provenance: Spanish private collection, formed between 1970 and 1995. Measures: 53,5 x 23 x 23 cm.Great vase with organic inspired design, as it was typical of the modernist period and the creations of Émile Gallé. With a conical body seated on a circular base, the glass is worked in different layers, combining textures through acid etching.Émile Gallé began his career working for his father, who owned a glass and ceramics factory, making designs with floral and heraldic motifs. Very interested in botany, he studied it in depth during his youth, alternating with drawing classes. Between 1862 and 1864, at his father's request, he traveled through Italy, England and Germany, becoming interested in the applied arts but also in subjects that he would later reflect in his works, such as music, philosophy and nature. On his return, he settled in Meisenthal, where the glass furnaces of his family were, in order to fully learn the craft of glassmaker. He also traveled to London and Paris to see the collections of their museums. In 1874 he took over his father's factory, and soon achieved great international success, winning awards at international exhibitions and selling works to major collections and museums. Today, pieces made by Émile Gallé can be seen in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Orsay Museum in Paris, the Brohan Museum in Berlin and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, among many others.
