Exhibitions in Parisian galleries (2) and acquisitions for Rouen

26/11/24 – Paris, Art Market and Rouen, Acquisitions – Before heading towards Place Vendôme, we continue our stroll around the Faubourg Saint-Honoré (see the brief), going to the Oscar Graf gallery where he and Mathieu Néouze exhibit a very beautiful set of works at the turn of the 1900s, from which we will remember a sculpture and a very large gouache watercolor, among many other remarkable objects.

1. Henry Cros (1840-1907)

The Walk1874

Polychrome wax modeled on wood, gilded,

glass cabochons – 100 x 56 x 10 cm

Galerie Oscar Graf and Galerie Mathieu Néouze

Photo : Galerie Oscar Graf

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The sculpture is a waxwork by Henry Cros (ill. 1), of a completely exceptional size since it measures one meter high. Exhibited at the Salon des Beaux-Arts of 1874, and recently presented at the Museum of Decorative Arts (see article), it shows two young women in Renaissance costumes. The work thus fits, with a technique which allows polychromy in the mass, into the neo-renaissance movement which developed in France at that time.

2. Henri Bellery-Desfontaines (1867-1909)

Sketch of Sigurd's score1894

Watercolor, gouache and pencil – 53.5 x 47.5 cm

Galerie Oscar Graf and Galerie Mathieu Néouze

Photo: Oscar Graf Gallery and Mathieu Néouze Gallery

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The watercolor, also of a beautiful dimension (ill. 2), is due to Henry Bellery-Desfontaines, a student of Jean-Paul Laurens and Luc-Olivier Merson. It is inspired by the composer Ernest Reyer, author of the opera Sigurd created in 1884 and who draws on the same sources as Wagner (Sigurd is the other name of Siegfried). The artist, marked by this opera performed for the first time in Paris in 1885, presented this work which is directly inspired by it at the Salon des Artistes français in 1896.

Place Vendôme therefore, we will visit the Marty de Cambiaire gallery which, also,…

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