Lot 426
CONSTANTIN MEUNIER (1831-1905)
TÊTE DE PUDDLER RELIEF PANEL
Auction: Design Since 1860 Day Two | Thurs 15th October | Lots 246 to 524
Description
designed 1885
patinated bronze
signed in cast C Meunier, Modèle exclusif DE LA MAISON MODERNE PARIS
Dimensions
32.5cm high, 25.3cm wide
Footnote
Literature: "Hommage à Constantin Meunier" Sura Levine & Françoise Urban, Gal. Maurice Tzwern, Brussel, Ed. Pandora 1998, cf. nr. 2, p. 47 (similar example illustrated)
La Maison Moderne was located at 82 rue des Petits-Champs, Paris, France and existed between 1898 and 1903. Founded by Julius Meier-Graefe (1867-1935) it promoted works in the Art Nouveau style for domestic consumption just as Siegfried Bing's Maison de L'Art Nouveau did which had opened three years earlier.